On Thursday 22 January 2004 14:24, Roberto Alsina wrote: > I was just wondering. If someone writes a nice, very free (as in BSD or > public domain) app using PyQt, would it be legal if someone having a > windows license would pack it into an installer and distribute it?
I dont believe so. The Qt commercial license says "applications must be developed using a licensed registered version of 'the software' ". On Thursday 22 January 2004 16:02, Greg Fortune wrote: > My understanding from both Phil and Trolltech reps is that this is > perfectly acceptable. > The only nit is that you must have a commercial > license in the first place to write a BSD licensed app. If you write it > without having a commercial license, it will automagically be licensed > under the GPL. There are two effects at work here. Firstly, you need to distribute it as GPL if your application is a 'derived work' of the GPL version of Qt or PyQt. Does this apply to you? That has been extensively debated elsewhere, and I dont have anything to add to those debates. Here is one alternative point of view http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL Secondly, there is a clause in the Qt commercial license that refers to applications that the licensee has "developed using" the free edition. I dont believe that applies to this scenario, because it is not the licensee doing the developing. > I'm kinda curious what people are using to package up Python apps for > distribution though... http://www.mcmillan-inc.com/install1.html -- Toby Dickenson _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
