Comment by MontyCarloHall

Dr. Hipp, I love SQLite but also had simonw's misapprehension that the project did not accept contributions. The SQLite copyright page says:

> Contributed Code

> In order to keep SQLite completely free and unencumbered by copyright, the project does not accept patches. If you would like to suggest a change and you include a patch as a proof-of-concept, that would be great. However, please do not be offended if we rewrite your patch from scratch.

I realize that the section, "Open-Source, not Open-Contribution" says that the project accepts contributions, but I'm having trouble understanding how that section and the "Contributed Code" section can both be accurate. Is there a distinction between accepting a "patch" vs. accepting a "contribution?"

If you're planning to update this page to reduce confusion of the contribution policy, I humbly suggest a rewrite of this sentence to eliminate the single and double negatives, which make it harder to understand:

> In order to keep SQLite in the public domain and ensure that the code does not become contaminated with proprietary or licensed content, the project does not accept patches from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.

Could be rewritten as:

> In order to keep SQLite in the public domain and prevent contamination of the code from proprietary or licensed content, the project only accepts patches from people who have submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.

[0] https://sqlite.org/copyright.html

Thanks for the correction, and sorry for getting that wrong. I genuinely didn't know that.

Found that paperwork here: https://www.sqlite.org/copyright-release.html

I will make sure not to spread that misinformation further in the future!

Update: I had a look in fossil and counted 38 contributors:

  brew install fossil
  fossil clone https://www.sqlite.org/src sqlite.fossil
  fossil sql -R sqlite.fossil "
    SELECT user, COUNT(*) as commits
    FROM event WHERE type='ci'
    GROUP BY user ORDER BY commits DESC
  "

Naive junior engineers eventually learn and become competent senior engineers. LLMs forget everything they "learn" as soon as the context window gets too big.

I have yet to see a junior trying to install random/non existing libs.

Opus 4.5 is just a few days over a month old. Boris would have had access to that for a while before its release though.