A quirk of this submitter's choice? We've seen it several times before without the trademark violation:
2023: Go port of SQLite without CGo (255 points, 118 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35488980
2020: Cznic/sqlite: Sqlite in pure Golang (no CGO) (6 points, not interesting for discussion.. this project is old) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24358826
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