Hello, I am curious about what problems the lawyers have (apart from being a lawyer that is) with SQLite being used in a commercial product. I read the line "No indemnity comes with it" which is a very funny statement. Funny because I don't know of any third party (third party to your project) product (control , DLL, compiler, OS ) that will indemnify you over any damage that they may or may not cause. It is standard practice to include a clause spelling out "it not our fault and you use this product at your own risk" Even Microsoft have a clause saying we will only be held responsible for damages up to a maximum of $1.50 in their products license agreemnt. It strikes me strange that a lawyer would want some type of cover from a product/source code you can change and recompile as you need and source that you can see and interagate as you need. Then again lawyers are a strange set of people.
regards Greg O ----- Original Message ----- From: D. Richard Hipp To: Tim McDaniel Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 10:10 AM Subject: Re: [sqlite] commercial usage of sqlite Tim McDaniel wrote: > I am trying to use SQLite in a commercial application, but I am getting > resistance from the company lawyer: > > "It is a risk to incorporate SQLite in the [product]. No indemnity > comes with it. We are exposed to third party claims of infringement." > > Has anyone else been in this position? Any advice? > I have provided documentation sufficient to convince corporate lawyers at other large consumer product companies that SQLite was not a risk. I can identify the author of every single line of the core code. (The makefiles and documentation are a different matter, but those files do not carry the same infringement risk since they are not distributed when SQLite is embedded in a product.) Have one of your business managers or lawyers contact me directly and we put to your IP concerns to rest. -- D. Richard Hipp -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 704.948.4565 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
