I think it still applies if consider you can build SQLite from a fork of the source and it probably needs no maintenance. In some ways, you could consider the S

I think it still applies if consider you can build SQLite from a fork of the source and it probably needs no maintenance. In some ways, you could consider the SQLite package that ships with a given distro/OS a mini-fork Still, surprises happen. Key contributor(s) could become ill, license changes can happen, ownership/stewardship change. Although super popular projects you can _probably_ rely on someone else forking Iirc one of the MariaDB engines was maintained by some singular dude that would go offline for months at a time and maintained it as a hobby.