From 24e4f0d609a5079288af61fde69bd7442c39d8b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Burd Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:46:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] update readme --- README | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d6abf69 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +DBSQL 0.3.1: (October 19, 2023) + +This is version 0.3.1 of DBSQL. + +To view the release and installation documentation, load the distribution +file docs/index.html into your web browser. + +This work started from the SQLite project (found on the web at +http://www.sqlite.org/). SQLite and all contributions to the SQLite +project have been placed in the public domain by its author, Dr. Richard Hipp. +There was no assertion of copyright at all on the code I used as a starting +point for my work. In fact there are statements that explicitly disclaim +copyright. I am asserting copyright on this work, DBSQL. I believe +that if you examine the extent to which I've changed, updated, and +modified the SQLite code you'll respect my copyright assertion. This +is a new product, heavily inspired by another. + +The goal for DBSQL is to provide a small SQL92 relational database layer +on top of the Berkeley DB database. Berkeley DB is copyright Oracle +Corporation (formerly Sleepycat Software, acquired in Feb 2006) and +licensed under the Sleepycat Public License. That license is compatible +with the GPL for open source use. Recognize that you, as someone using +DBSQL, will need to review the Sleepycat License and the GPL before you +use and redistribute your incorporating work. It is your responsibility +to comply with those licenses as I am in my work on DBSQL itself. My +motivation on a personal level is quite simple, I am in product management +these days and not in the code itself. I believe that product managers +should be engineers at heart with an ability to understand business, +politics, and software sales and support. This is my playground to keep +my engineering skills sharp enough to speak fluent geek. As a former +engineer at Sleepycat I understand and value the Berkeley DB programming +infrasture, design, and methodologies and I have liberally copied and +reused them in this project to improve SQLite in ways that I hope will +be of value to open source users out there. I did this because I see the +value of SQLite to its userbase, it is a perfect example of the 80/20 +rule and the KISS method and I admire those qualities in software. My +hope is that the Berkeley DB database engine will provide some significant +features that SQLite cannot such as replication for high availability +while remaining small enough to live comfortably inside applications, +services, and devices. + +Information and resources pertaining to DBSQL can be found at dbsql.org. + +Commercial licenses without the restrictions found in the GPL can be +purchased for this product. See http://dbsql.org/wiki/CommercialUse +