> No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows

> No one is required to follow The Rule, to know The Rule, or even to think that The Rule is a good idea. The Founder of SQLite believes that anyone who follows The Rule will live a happier and more productive life, but individuals are free to dispute or ignore that advice if they wish. It seemed strange at first that community members aren't required to follow the code of conduct, but I think it actually makes a lot of sense. The maintainers follow this set of rules so that this type of good conduct becomes the norm in the community since SQLite is a cathedral style project where most of the code changes come from the few (three?) core developers. It's more of "how you can expect to be treated" instead of "how you should treat others", which works better in this project than in others like Linux.