4 ms·
SQLite3 is in every phone and every laptop and... Do Apple, Google, etc. have to do something special in order to use SQLite3 in Germany? Have there been any
by cryptonector 4y ago
SQLite3 is in every phone and every laptop and... Do Apple, Google, etc. have to do something special in order to use SQLite3 in Germany? Have there been any court cases about this? Have there been any fines issued or paid over this? IMO the whole Germany-doesn't-have-public-domain thing is just FUD.
- LarryMullins 4y agoSQLite offers to sell licenses to organizations that worry about it, Apple and Google have probably bought such licenses to cover their asses in Germany just in case.
- cryptonector 4y agoYeah, but does anyone really bother? Is there any German case law about this?
- GoblinSlayer 4y agoGermany uses civil law (Roman system), not common law.
- cryptonector 4y agoThe courts might not make common law, but there could still be no court cases at all about public domain software, which would be pretty telling that those just don't come up even though there's an abundance of public domain source code.
- remram 4y agoThat is true, still it has a comprehensive copyright page which includes this rather explicit permission: > Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute the original SQLite code, either in source code form or as a compiled binary, for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and by any means. https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html This is quite different from librandombytes...