'Lite' Databases (Re: sqlite3 and dates)

[Ned Deily]

In article <871tljepea.fsf at jester.gateway.pace.com>,
 Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:

> Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> writes:
> > (though I don't know why anyone would want to fork it).  
> 
> Same reason lots of people have forked Postgres.  Or you might just want
> to customize it.

Well, for whatever reason one might have, one can: it's public domain 
software.

> > I imagine that is done as an incentive to help
> > finance the on-going development and maintenance of SQLite. 
> It's a pretty unusual and annoying trick that other projects have not
> felt they had to resort to.
> 
> > https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
> 
> Thanks, that's the page I remember.  The TH3 test suite is the
> interesting one and you can't get it without paying a lot of $$$$$.  I
> guess there is some semantic quibble possible about whether you pay for
> the test suite, or (as they put it) pay for Consortium membership and
> then (as a member) get the test suite for free.

I don't have any special knowledge of the history or current status of 
the Consortium but it's not difficult to find information and blog posts 
about it.  It seems like this was an approach Richard Hipp and major 
users of SQLite took to ensure a sustaining funding model for the 
project while ensuring its independence.  It strikes me as a very 
reasonable and modest constraint given the immense good that the SQLite 
project has done for so many other projects over the years.  Many other 
less important projects have foundered for lack of sustained funding.

https://www.sqlite.org/consortium.html
https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2008/02/27/the-sqlite-consortium/
 
> Do you know the situation with the SQL Logic Test (SLT) also mentioned
> on that page?

No

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org