SQLCipher's community edition is Open Source Software available under a permissive license that allows it's use in both open source and commercial products. All products that include SQLCipher (including those that use the Commercial Edition binaries) must abide by the SQLCipher license, as well as the licenses for dependent and integrated products listed below. This generally 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 Community Edition distributions are made available under the following BSD style license.
Copyright (c) 2008-2023, ZETETIC LLC
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Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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SQLCipher Commercial Edition distributions are made available under the following commercial license.
SQLCipher Commercial Edition Software License »
SQLCipher relies on the following Free and Open Source software components.
SQLite (http://sqlite.org/); Version 3; 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/); Version 1.0 and 1.1; Distributed under the OpenSSL License (https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html); Copyright (c) 1998-2017 The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)
Curl and libcurl are licensed under a MIT/X derivate license (https://curl.haxx.se/docs/copyright.html); Copyright (c) 1996 - 2018, 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); Version 3; 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/); Version 1.2; Distributed under the MIT license (https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/LICENSE); Copyright (c) 2012 The Mono Project. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by the Mono Project
SQLite-net (https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net); Version 1.2; Distributed under the SQLite-net license (https://github.com/praeclarum/sqlite-net/blob/master/LICENSE.md); Copyright (c) 2009-2016 Krueger Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by Krueger Systems, Inc.
SQLitePCL.raw (https://github.com/ericsink/SQLitePCL.raw); Version 1.1.11; 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); Version 1.2; Distributed under the MIT license (http://github.com/oysteinkrog/SQLite.Net-PCL/blob/master/license.md); Copyright (c) 2009-2012 Krueger Systems, Inc. Copyright (c) 2013 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); All Versions; Distributed under the MIT license (https://github.com/peterhuene/sqlite-net-wp8/blob/master/LICENSE.txt); Copyright (C) 2013 Peter Huene. All rights reserved.; This product includes software developed by Peter Huene
Apache Cordova (https://cordova.apache.org/); All Versions; 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); All Versions; 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); All Versions; 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); All Versions; Distributed under the Unicode Terms of Use (http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html); Copyright (c) 1991-2017 Unicode, Inc.; This product includes data files developed by Unicode, Inc.
SQLite JDBC (https://github.com/xerial/sqlite-jdbc/); All Versions; 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