Just to be clear: We do not have any support contracts with the US military, nor any other US government agency, nor any other government entity, either inside or outside the US. Not that we would turn down such work if it were available, it is just that is has never come up.

I'm pretty sure I read this in an interview with one of the authors. However, I can't find it, so I will defer to you. Apologies for the implication.

You're not the only one.

Until I read the transcript, just now, I had confused SQLite's origins (a General Dynamics contract with the US Navy) with its through-2050 support contract, which, it turns out, is with Airbus.

There are 3 people on the planet who can make changes to it and one person who can work on their custom made source control system. Single points of failure are not sustainable.

Well, it's been popular for 20 years, so that sounds fairly sustainable to me. A lot of projects with many more contributors have come and gone in that time period.

Either way, that doesn't make it "closed source" like you said in the other comment.

> There are 3 people on the planet who can make changes to it

Anyone on the planet can make changes to it and distribute those changes. The only thing those 3 can do that the rest of us cannot is get their changes into the copies distributed at sqlite.org.