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| Copyright Release for<br> |
| Contributions To SQLite |
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| SQLite is software that implements an embeddable SQL database engine. |
| SQLite is available for free download from http://www.sqlite.org/. |
| The principal author and maintainer of SQLite has disclaimed all |
| copyright interest in his contributions to SQLite |
| and thus released his contributions into the public domain. |
| In order to keep the SQLite software unencumbered by copyright |
| claims, the principal author asks others who may from time to |
| time contribute changes and enhancements to likewise disclaim |
| their own individual copyright interest. |
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| <p> |
| Because the SQLite software found at http://www.sqlite.org/ is in the |
| public domain, anyone is free to download the SQLite software |
| from that website, make changes to the software, use, distribute, |
| or sell the modified software, under either the original name or |
| under some new name, without any need to obtain permission, pay |
| royalties, acknowledge the original source of the software, or |
| in any other way compensate, identify, or notify the original authors. |
| Nobody is in any way compelled to contribute their SQLite changes and |
| enhancements back to the SQLite website. This document concerns |
| only changes and enhancements to SQLite that are intentionally and |
| deliberately contributed back to the SQLite website. |
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| For the purposes of this document, "SQLite software" shall mean any |
| computer source code, documentation, makefiles, test scripts, or |
| other information that is published on the SQLite website, |
| http://www.sqlite.org/. Precompiled binaries are excluded from |
| the definition of "SQLite software" in this document because the |
| process of compiling the software may introduce information from |
| outside sources which is not properly a part of SQLite. |
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| The header comments on the SQLite source files exhort the reader to |
| share freely and to never take more than one gives. |
| In the spirit of that exhortation I make the following declarations: |
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| I dedicate to the public domain |
| any and all copyright interest in the SQLite software that |
| was publicly available on the SQLite website (http://www.sqlite.org/) prior |
| to the date of the signature below and any changes or enhancements to |
| the SQLite software |
| that I may cause to be published on that website in the future. |
| I make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and |
| to the detriment of my heirs and successors. I intend this |
| dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of |
| all present and future rights to the SQLite software under copyright |
| law. |
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| <li><p> |
| To the best of my knowledge and belief, the changes and enhancements that |
| I have contributed to SQLite are either originally written by me |
| or are derived from prior works which I have verified are also |
| in the public domain and are not subject to claims of copyright |
| by other parties. |
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| To the best of my knowledge and belief, no individual, business, organization, |
| government, or other entity has any copyright interest |
| in the SQLite software as it existed on the |
| SQLite website as of the date on the signature line below. |
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| <li><p> |
| I agree never to publish any additional information |
| to the SQLite website (by CVS, email, scp, FTP, or any other means) unless |
| that information is an original work of authorship by me or is derived from |
| prior published versions of SQLite. |
| I agree never to copy and paste code into the SQLite code base from |
| other sources. |
| I agree never to publish on the SQLite website any information that |
| would violate a law or breach a contract. |
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