Interesting! I had no idea about this fork.
But, seriously what is “open source but not open contribution”!? One of the main byproducts of the open source way is that if you think your ideas are not being heard, you can simply fork away. It looks like the author was referring to the fact that the way SQLite is governed, corporates cannot financially sponsor in exchange for project steering rights 🤷♂️
It’s probably just me but that weird yet intentional wording made me lose interest in the actual offering 😑
My understanding is that sqlite simply doesn’t accept outside contribution… source If you want to extend it anyway, you’re basically required to fork (or pay for the consortium membership of 120k/yr and ask them to develop the features…)
From the link:
the project does not accept patches from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.
So now I see. Since the project is in public domain there’s no copyright/left around it. And if you want to contribute, you need to sign a paper that says you’re dedicating your patch to the public domain.
If you want to extend it anyway, you’re basically required to fork I think that’s not totally true. Forking is only one of the approaches.
Nonetheless, I had the wrong idea of how SQLite is governed 🤦 Thanks for the refresher and the link 🙏
