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