But then you can not use your plugins for Spyder that are not open
source with PyQt4 license.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:37 AM, Carlos Córdoba <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Nop, that's not true. The only requirement imposed by PyQt to open source
> projects depending on it is that their licenses be compatible with the GPL.
> This is clearly mentioned in the PyQt wiki:
>
> https://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt/PyQtLicensing
>
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos
>
> El 20/03/16 a las 20:14, Ronan Paixão escribió:
>
> Have you considered the licensing implications? PyQt is GPL, and actually
> *depending* on it (instead of using it as one of two possible options) would
> require Spyder itself to be released as GPL, wouldn't it?
>
> 2015-12-29 1:55 GMT-02:00 Carlos Córdoba <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Since today, we officially stopped to support PySide in the Spyder master
>> branch (i.e. in the future Spyder 3.0, Spyder 2.3 still works fine with it
>> though). This means that:
>>
>> 1. If PySide is found in your system, and PyQt5 nor PyQt4 are installed,
>> Spyder will try to use it. But at the moment, our master branch has several
>> crashes with PySide that we don't plan to solve (at least not me, other core
>> developers have shown interest in doing that but nothing has happened so far
>> :-).
>> 2. We're not going to solve more bugs related to PySide in the future
>> (again, at least not me :-)
>> 3. Support for it will have to come from the community.
>>
>> The reasons for taking this decision are explained in the link referenced
>> by Anatoly, in case someone wants to know them. Nobody is getting paid to
>> support only PyQt (4 or 5). It was just a pragmatic decision based on the
>> amount of time the development team has to support several Python Qt
>> bindings. Given that we're now supporting PyQt5 (and that PyQt5 is going to
>> be our default choice for Spyder 3.0), we don't have time to support both
>> PyQt4 and PySide. And because of the uncertainty of PySide's future, we
>> decided to not support it anymore.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Carlos
>>
>> El 28/12/15 a las 18:04, anatoly techtonik escribió:
>>
>> https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder/pull/2886
>>
>> Hey guys, where is the discussion about that?
>> I am just curios - does anybody is getting paid
>> to make Spyder work only with PyQt4?
>>
>> Yes. PySide needs more companies interested
>> in this binding to support this initiative, but the
>> project is far from being dead.
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