On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:13:41 -0800, Jim Tilander <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > So after a little bit of digging I saw that Qt itself allows for some > other open source licenses > (http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4/license-gpl-exceptions.html) including > MIT License, which is my favourite no nonsense license. I'm > maintaining a couple of open source python scripts under the MIT > license and was toying with the idea of adding a user friendly GUI to > them, Qt and PyQT are looking pretty good since Tkinter is ugly and > almost all the other toolkits just fails abysmally under Win64 > environments. Now I ran into a little bit of a snag, I can not find a > similar exception list to the GPL license for PyQT as for Qt itself. > The only thing I did find was > http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/pyqt4ref.html#license > ... except the wording "If you use the GPL versions then your own code > must also use a compatible license." could be interpreted either way, > compatible with GPL, or compatible with the license for Qt itself, > which *does* allow for MIT license. Oh how I hate licenses... > > Could anyone clarify what that last sentence refers to? I want to > interpret it as it's free for the MIT license, but of course I'm > slightly biased.
PyQt has the same GPL exceptions as Qt does. Note that even if you use a license covered by those exceptions you have to accept additional GPL-style restrictions. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list [email protected] http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
