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https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
To summarize, instead of using one of the OSS licenses, the copyright holders simply declare the source to be in the public domain. In order to preserve that status they don't accept patches unless you submit some signed document that you agree with that.
To make things more complicated, they also use their a relatively niche version management system instead of git. Which would complicate making contributions (if they accepted them).
There's a popular fork that fixes all of these issues: https://github.com/libsql/libsql It is MIT licensed, on Github, and open for contributions.
Kind of a weird legal situation for a popular project like this that so many people depend on to have. Not judging; but it is odd. Seems like a lot of wasted efforts between users, would be contributors, and the people that forked this thing to address all that.
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SQLite is a pretty popular database and it's a critical dependency for many different applications. By compiling it to Wasm32-wasi, you can add it to any WebAssembly module.
This enables a new set of possibilities for Wasm and SQLite. For example, now you can run a full WordPress application in the browser [1][2] / server [3] using the same Wasm module. Note that for the browser these projects use Emscripten [4], but in the future the same Wasm32-wasi module will work.
In general, any environment that includes a wasm runtime can potentially run applications that uses SQLite under the hood. Before, it wasn't possible.
- [1] https://wordpress.wasmlabs.dev/
- [2] https://developer.wordpress.org/playground/demo/
- [3] https://wasmlabs.dev/articles/running-wordpress-with-mod-was...
- [4] https://emscripten.org/
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Those are great questions! I believe Emscripten will be required for some cases as it provides more features for targeting a Web Browser. If WASI is the only requirement for a Wasm module, then there are three possible solutions:
- Use a library that provides the WASI bindings in a browser environments: there are some OSS projects that provides WASI bindings on top of browser technologies. For example, workers-wasi from Cloudflare [1]. It could be even another Wasm module that provides the implementation for the main one. I know the people from Loophole Labs are experimenting with virtual filesystems (VFS) [2].
- Browsers provides a WASI implementation: server-oriented runtimes like NodeJS are already providing these bindings (under a experimental flag). I shouldn't have stated that as a fact, as browsers may provide it or not. However, I saw in the past the Google Chrome team experimenting with WASI and the browser FileSystem API [3]. So, I think it may happen :)
- [1] https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-wasi
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Those are great questions! I believe Emscripten will be required for some cases as it provides more features for targeting a Web Browser. If WASI is the only requirement for a Wasm module, then there are three possible solutions:
- Use a library that provides the WASI bindings in a browser environments: there are some OSS projects that provides WASI bindings on top of browser technologies. For example, workers-wasi from Cloudflare [1]. It could be even another Wasm module that provides the implementation for the main one. I know the people from Loophole Labs are experimenting with virtual filesystems (VFS) [2].
- Browsers provides a WASI implementation: server-oriented runtimes like NodeJS are already providing these bindings (under a experimental flag). I shouldn't have stated that as a fact, as browsers may provide it or not. However, I saw in the past the Google Chrome team experimenting with WASI and the browser FileSystem API [3]. So, I think it may happen :)
- [1] https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-wasi
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