Re: master 3d38d1d: Add sqlite3 support to Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 15:04:35 +0800
> 
> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > BTW, this doesn't compile on macOS.  It complains that
> > `sqlite3_load_extension' is missing.
> 
> On a different note, SQLite3 extensions are linked dynamically, and they
> could be proprietary software.  AFAIU, the SQLite3 developers even
> provide a few proprietary extensions themselves, including one for
> database encryption.
> 
> So I think we should check that the .so file passed to
> `sqlite-load-extension' as the `module' argument contains a GPL
> compatibility symbol before allowing SQLite to load it, similar to what
> we do with Emacs modules.

Would you like to prepare a patch to that effect, please?