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Comment: | Add the "Open-source not open-contribution" section to the copyright.html page. Try to clarify the meaning of "Warranty of Title". |
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User & Date: | drh 2018-02-05 21:14:35.306 |
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2018-02-05
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21:18 | Fix typo on the new copyright.html page. (check-in: c5661b456c user: drh tags: branch-3.22) | |
21:14 | Add the "Open-source not open-contribution" section to the copyright.html page. Try to clarify the meaning of "Warranty of Title". (check-in: a2ec6275f0 user: drh tags: branch-3.22) | |
20:00 | Rework the CGI scripts for search so that they use the Wapp framework (https://wapp.tcl.tk). Cherry-pick from trunk. (check-in: 6a06e6c785 user: drh tags: branch-3.22) | |
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41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 | 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 | + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + - + - - + + + - + + - - + + + + + + - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - - - + - - - - - - - + - - - - - - | No code has been taken from other projects or from the open internet. Every line of code can be traced back to its original author, and all of those authors have public domain dedications on file. So the SQLite code base is clean and is uncontaminated with licensed code from other projects. </p> <tcl>hd_fragment notopencontrib {not open-contributin}</tcl> <h2>Open-Source, not Open-Contribution</h2> <p> SQLite is open-source, meaning that you can make as many copies of it as you want and do whatever you want with those copies, without limitation. But SQLite is not open-contribution. The project does not accept patches. Only 27 individuals have ever contributed any code to SQLite, and of those only 16 still have traces in the latest release. Only 3 developers have contributed non-comment changes within the previous five years and 96.4% of the latest release code was written by just two people. (The statistics in this paragraph were gathered on 2018-02-05.) <p> Furthermore, all of the code in SQLite is original, having been written specifically for use by SQLite. No code has been copied from unknown sources on the internet. <p> Many people associated "open-source" software with software that has grow organically through contributions from countless individuals. And, indeed, there is some open-source software that works that way. But not SQLite. SQLite uses the the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar|cathedral development philosopy] not the bazaar approach. All of the SQLite code has been written by people who are well known to each other. <tcl>hd_fragment warrantyoftitle {Warranty of Title}</tcl> <div class="rightsidebar"> <form method="GET" action="https://www.hwaci.com/cgi-bin/license-step1"> <input type="submit" value="Buy An SQLite License"> </form> </div> |