SQLCipher License Information

SQLCipher is distributed under several license types, each catering to different requirements. All products that include SQLCipher must abide by the applicable SQLCipher license, as well as the licenses for dependent and integrated products listed below.

  • SQLCipher Community Edition License » The Open Source version is available under a BSD-style license and requires attribution and reproduction of license grants in the application interface and/or materials. This can be in an about or licensing screen in the application, in the product documentation on a website linked from the application, but must be a user accessible location.
  • SQLCipher Commercial Edition Software License » This license applies to Zetetic's official Commercial Edition packages that feature enhanced performance, feature extensions, and private support.
  • SQLCipher Trial Software License » SQLCipher offers a time-limited trial for evaluation purposes. The trial license allows internal development and testing but prohibits redistribution or use in production environments.
  • Enterprise Program - Enterprise licenses are also available for organizations requiring special packages (FIPS, JDBC, Cordova, ReactNative, etc), customization, advanced services, enterprise support, or tailored license grants. Contact us for details.

Open Source Legal Notices

SQLCipher may rely on the following Free and Open Source software components.

SQLite (http://sqlite.org/); Released to the Public Domain (http://sqlite.org/copyright.html); The author disclaims copyright to this source code.; This product includes software developed by the SQLite Project

OpenSSL (https://www.openssl.org/); Distributed under the Apache License v2 or dueal OpenSSL and SSLeay License (https://openssl-library.org/source/license/index.html); Copyright (c) The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (https://www.openssl-library.org/)

Curl and libcurl are licensed under a MIT/X derivate license (https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html); Copyright (c) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, and many contributors, see the THANKS file.; All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by Curl and libcurl Project.

Android (https://www.android.com/); All Versions; Distributed under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0); Copyright (c) Google and others. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by the Android Open Source Project;

System.Data.SQLite (https://system.data.sqlite.org); Released to the Public Domain (https://system.data.sqlite.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/copyright.wiki); The author disclaims copyright to this source code.; This product includes software developed by the SQLite Project

Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/); Distributed under the MIT license (https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/LICENSE); Copyright (c) The Mono Project. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by the Mono Project

SQLite-net (https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net); Distributed under the SQLite-net license (https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net/blob/master/LICENSE.md); Copyright (c) Krueger Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by Krueger Systems, Inc.

SQLitePCL.raw (https://github.com/ericsink/SQLitePCL.raw); Distributed under the Apache Software License (https://github.com/ericsink/SQLitePCL.raw/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT); This product includes software developed by Eric Sink.

SQLiteNET-PCL (https://github.com/oysteinkrog/SQLite.Net-PCL); Distributed under the MIT license (http://github.com/oysteinkrog/SQLite.Net-PCL/blob/master/license.md); Copyright (c) Krueger Systems, Inc. Copyright (c) Øystein Krog. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by Krueger Systems, Inc. and Øystein Krog

SQLite-net-wp8 (https://github.com/peterhuene/sqlite-net-wp8); Distributed under the MIT license (https://github.com/peterhuene/sqlite-net-wp8/blob/master/LICENSE.txt); Copyright (C) Peter Huene. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by Peter Huene

Apache Cordova (https://cordova.apache.org/); Distributed under the Apache Software License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0); Copyright (c) Apache. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by the Apache Cordova Project;

LibTomCrypt (https://github.com/libtom/libtomcrypt); Released to the Public Domain (https://github.com/libtom/libtomcrypt/blob/develop/LICENSE); The author disclaims copyright to this source code.; This product includes software developed by the LibTomCrypt project

Cordova SQLite Storage (https://github.com/litehelpers/Cordova-sqlite-storage); Distribued under the MIT license (https://github.com/litehelpers/Cordova-sqlite-storage/blob/storage-master/LICENSE.md); Copyright (c) Christopher Broday and the Cordova SQLite Storage Project (https://github.com/litehelpers/Cordova-sqlite-storage/blob/storage-master/AUTHORS.md); This product includes software developed by the Cordova SQLite Storage project

Unicode Data Files (http://www.unicode.org); Distributed under the Unicode Terms of Use (http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html); Copyright (c) Unicode, Inc.; This product includes data files developed by Unicode, Inc.

SQLite JDBC (https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/); Distributed under the MIT license (https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/blob/master/LICENSE) and BSD License (https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/blob/master/LICENSE.zentus); Copyright (c) Taro L. Saito, David Crawshaw, et al; This product includes software developed by the SQLite JDBC Project

whereami (https://github.com/gpakosz/whereami); All Versions; Dual licensed under the WTFPL v2 and MIT licenses; Copyright (c) Gregory Pakosz

Acknowledgements & Contributors

We acknowledge and thank the following individuals, listed in alphabetical order, who have made special contributions to the SQLCipher project:

  • Nathan Freitas
  • Billy Gray
  • Pavel Hlavnicka
  • Alexey Illarionov
  • Stephen Lombardo
  • Abel Luck
  • Micah Moore
  • Nick Parker
  • Steven Parkes
  • Joachim Schipper
  • Hans Christoph Steiner