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I wanted to find something more interesting than news of a minor patch release about what is probably the worlds most installed database. Turns out the develop
by jarym 4y ago
I wanted to find something more interesting than news of a minor patch release about what is probably the worlds most installed database.
Turns out the developers sell licenses and a few proprietary extensions - I never knew about CEROD or SEE before. https://www.sqlite.org/purchase/license https://www.sqlite.org/purchase/license?
I wonder if proceeds from this commercialisation alone are sufficient to keep the OSS effort going or whether the devs also have other paid endeavours.
- 2143 4y agoMy understanding is that the source is open for anybody to see and do whatever, but closed to contributions. Also, they have some big names who have paid them a lot of money to keep the project alive for the next few decades. Airbus the plane manufacturer is one example. There are these two podcast episodes [1] featuring sqlite founder Richard Hipp which I encourage you to listen. He is a thoroughbred. [1] https://changelog.com/person/drh/podcasts#feed https://changelog.com/person/drh/podcasts#feed