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SQLite Is Public Domain
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All of the code and documentation in SQLite has been dedicated to the public
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domain by the authors. All code authors, and representatives of the companies
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they work for, have signed affidavits dedicating their contributions to the
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public domain and originals of those signed affidavits are stored in a firesafe
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at the main offices of Hwaci. Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use,
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compile, sell, or distribute the original SQLite code, either in source code
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form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial,
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and by any means.
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The previous paragraph applies to the deliverable code and documentation in
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SQLite - those parts of the SQLite library that you actually bundle and ship
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with a larger application. Some scripts used as part of the build process (for
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example the "configure" scripts generated by autoconf) might fall under other
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open-source licenses. Nothing from these build scripts ever reaches the final
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deliverable SQLite library, however, and so the licenses associated with those
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scripts should not be a factor in assessing your rights to copy and use the
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SQLite library.
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All of the deliverable code in SQLite has been written from scratch. No code
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has been taken from other projects or from the open internet. Every line of
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code can be traced back to its original author, and all of those authors have
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public domain dedications on file. So the SQLite code base is clean and is
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uncontaminated with licensed code from other projects.
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