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Appendix E Open Source Licences
Media Server User’s Guide
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"You want to hold a tangible legal document as evidence that you have the legal right to use and
distribute SQLite.
"Your legal department tells you that you have to purchase a license.
If you feel like you really have to purchase a license for SQLite, Hwaci, the company that employs
the architect and principal developers of SQLite, will sell you one.
Contributed Code
In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, all new contributors to
the SQLite code base are asked to dedicate their contributions to the public domain. If you want to
send a patch or enhancement for possible inclusion in the SQLite source tree, please accompany
the patch with the following statement:
The author or authors of this code dedicate any and all copyright interest in this code to the public
domain. We make this dedication for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our
heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of relinquishment in perpetuity of
all present and future rights to this code under copyright law.
We are not able to accept patches or changes to SQLite that are not accompanied by a statement
such as the above. In addition, if you make changes or enhancements as an employee, then a
simple statement such as the above is insufficient. You must also send by surface mail a copyright
release signed by a company officer. A signed original of the copyright release should be mailed to:
Hwaci
6200 Maple Cove Lane
Charlotte, NC 28269
USA
A template copyright release is available in PDF or HTML. You can use this release to make future
changes
Copyright Release for
Contributions To SQLite
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.
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