Hi, Richard, My question was not about "Copyright", but about "Licensing". From experience I know that many pakcage prohibits static linking (until couple of years it was the case for Qt - you had to pay a significant amount of money for a license to do a static linking with Qt). I also know that on Windows static linking is preferred method of building the application, while on *nix - it is generally frowned upon. I don't know what is the reason behind it - but that's how it is. Now you answer makes it clear that SQLite (as some other libraries) can be statically linked to any program, without violation any laws. Thank you.