You're right. I forgot to inlude my usual disclaimer for alternativeto.net that
users should check the license themselves before installing and avoid having to
enable JavaScript to filter by license by appending '?license=opensource' to
the URL.
So long as you're mindful about the licensing of plugins you install then you
should be fine.
Also as FindEssential says keep an eye on updates in case they remove
features.
I use the full-fat (closed) IntelliJ at work, but I use Pycharm community
edition at home as a Python IDE. I quite
Just be careful though, best sources are still the repositories of
free/libre distros, and directory.fsf.org. And pay attention to
versions, sometimes they matter in respect to freedom status.
AlternativeTo has non-free JS, and confuses free/libre with open source.
2017-12-22T20:12:41+0100
It looks like the community edition you link to is libre. It looks like the
products available for download from Jetbrains' site, including PyCharm
Profession, are not due to their EULA.
I use IDLE for simple Python programs and Eclipse for larger ones. Here's a
good resource for finding
Apache 2.0 is a free software license, so at first blush the community
edition looks to be free software. That said due to its freemium model there
maybe issues of the software suggesting non-free addons or "upgrades", this
would run counter to free software. I can't assess that last bit
I got used to edit with Kate, which is great text editor with plugins I
needed. But I really want to try some good IDE. With some helpful tool and
maybe autocompletion.
Hi, is PyCharm-community-edition free software? their licences are unclear.
Maybe something like VirtualBox or Atom (text-editor).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyCharm#cite_note-9
"PyCharm Community Edition is distributed under Apache 2 license, with full
source code available on GitHub."
