Software licenses are generally a magical mystery to me, and there are smart lawyers that are paid to fully understand them... but from what I comprehend about GPL is that it is an "infectuos" type of license. It makes your own source also need to be GPL and that you need to make your source code available. I've heard it described as a more complicated license with various gotchas. Something like LGPL (PySide) is not infectious, as the fact that you are using and bundling PySide doesn't make your own code of the same license. You are free withhold your original source. It depends also on how you want to use it. If you don't plan to distribute the GPL library with your code, then it may not matter.
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 8:16 PM Marcus Ottosson <[email protected]> wrote: > Doesn’t change the license scheme. > > I’ve heard that some refrain from using GPL, but I never understood why. > > Its free so long as you don’t distribute the PyQt binaries *and don’t > include the source*. Distributing *with* the source is GPL compatible. > Either way, your company might restrict you from distributing software > altogether, including anything written using PySide. > > http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html > > So, what gives? > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAFRtmOAUbDA5O%2BB_PkN3HLxe%2BaiuZ%2Bj4ePF%3D3xww6qswM0QvHw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAFRtmOAUbDA5O%2BB_PkN3HLxe%2BaiuZ%2Bj4ePF%3D3xww6qswM0QvHw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Programming for Autodesk Maya" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/python_inside_maya/CAPGFgA1o-T2dkhiQVFeAe%2B4rtpxDir1e0hgkv1a6inhjP24cwQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
