On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Henrik Pauli <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 13:28:15 Attila Csipa wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 May 2009 12:30:02 Henrik Pauli wrote: > > > Hmm... I think strictly said, the licensing of the final product and > the > > > development model do not have anything to do with each other. > Afterall, > > > it’s not LGPL per se that made Qt’s development model more open, that’s > > > just a separate, just well timed decision. > > > > With Qt this is not the case, it has a very firm stance about development > > model and it's relation to the final product license. Legally, you cannot > > start development with a non-commercial Qt license (either community/GPL > or > > LGPL) and then switch over to commercial on product release. I believe > this > > is why Phil made the licensing change he mentioned - so at least with a > > commercial license of PyQt you can use the LGPL version of Qt and still > > make a commercial product. IANAL, correct me if I'm wrong. > > > > I was talking about Qt itself getting developed (by Trolltech / Qt > Software) > rather than development *with* Qt. At least I think that was mostly Mr. > Corsaire's concern (cf. Phil getting hit by a bus). > > Actually, same concern can be expressed towards Detlev too, Eric4, while > open > source, the only interface to its development we have is here in the > mailing > lists; if something happens to Detlev, there's no public repository so it's > not possible to continue where he left it, but one would have to go back to > whatever the last release was. > The repository for Eric4 *is* publicly available: http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/eric4-code.html
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