David Boddie wrote:
After my brief flirtation with PyKDE, I'm afraid I have to say goodbye.
It looks like a great package, but I'm afraid the viral GPL has driven
me away. I say this not to start a flame war, but simply to let people
know that the GPL does drive some people away (perhaps as it attracts
others). I would love to try writing a commercial app in PyKDE
(contributing fixes to the codebase, as well as licensing fees), but
this is obviously not possible.
It seems a shame that the closed source approach is often seen as the
only viable approach to commercial deployment of applications. Another
approach that can also be successful is the open source plus service and
support model, but this may not be compatible with existing business
models involving certain kinds of software. :-(
This fails to acknowledge that the person in charge of choosing a
technical solution (such as a GUI toolkit) and that in charge of
changing the commercial strategy of the company are not the same in any
non-trivial case.
Qt and PyQt work because they *do* offer a dual-licensing model which
fits any kind of business strategy.
--
Giovanni Bajo
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