On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Jay Kreibich <j...@kreibi.ch> wrote:
> > > On Dec 25, 2017, at 12:24 PM, J. King <jk...@jkingweb.ca> wrote: > > > > SQLite source is managed in a Fossil (not Git) repository, which is > software itself designed by Dr. Hipp and based on SQLite. GitHub would be > an entirely inappropriate venue. > > > > SQLite is also not open source software in the conventional sense. > SQLite is written by a small team of people, and outside contributions are > far less common than in most open source software. > > > Indeed. The core SQLite source code is free (as in beer, as in freedom), > but its development is carefully controlled by Hwaci, the company > responsible for employing SQLite developers. Hwaci also owns the trademark > to the name SQLite. Hwaci has several products, including extensions such > as the SQLite encryption extensions, that are NOT free (as in beer, nor as > in freedom). The testing system used for SQLite, which represents a source > base several times larger than the SQLite core, is also completely > private. Hosting such systems on Github would require a subscription fee > and, frankly, why should they bother? > > doesn't require a fee unless they want to amke it private. It's not private as it is (though it is a bit more work to track down how to get it). They could still maintain strict control over merges as a public project. I have a version on github I've been keeping up to date for the last month or so... https://github.com/d3x0r/sqlite3 <https://github.com/d3x0r/sqlite3/tree/master> (And no, I don't plan to maintain this forever; although it might end up that way) Migrating the original fossil to github would be a lot of work to rebuild the history in git format; plus they would lose color tagging on branches... Fossil is actually simpler to deal with since it's a single executable. -j > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
