“This document continues to be used for its original purpose - providing a reference to fill in the “code of conduct” box on supplier registration forms.”
Corporate procurement demanded a code of conduct, so SQLite pasted in a chapter of the Rule of St. Benedict. It binds the developers, not the users, and says so. The most widely deployed database on earth answers a compliance checkbox with a 1,500-year-old monastic rule. The checkbox accepted it.