https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31886687
SQLite is like wine produced by a monastery. You don't have to follow their virtues to buy their wine.
On the flip side we might hypothetically ask whether we can have "software monasteries" which ban Muslims or gay people, because that is the prerogative which American Christian organizations currently hold over their employees and members.
Yes, to use the license you are not required to follow the creed. It's different to say what that means for those who are inside the monastery, where everyone has sworn themselves to this creed.
Has there ever been one exception?
SQLite is really not at all like a monastery.
