> > 1. Why SQLite is popular. > > The answers to those question mentioned in the podcast may be good ones but I > think the main reason is that it's free. Completely, unmistakably, free.
Necessary but not sufficient. It's free, and the licence is as non-restrictive as it is possible to be. > You could make many changes to SQLite and people would continue to use it but > the thing that would decrease its usage fastest would be to charge for it. Imposing licence conditions would come a close second. I'm not going to mention GPL (or AGPL) but there are many conditions found in licence agreements that run more than a para or two that would make it impossible to use in particular applications. Free AND non-restrictive licence is the killer combo for getting software used, especially when it can be embedded. > Nobody seems to mention this as an answer to that question. Nobody wants to speak ill of more restrictive licence agreements either. Regards David M Bennett FACS Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org
