[PyQt] Does the GPL exception hold for PyQt5?

[Phil Thompson]

On 26-02-2014 1:30 pm, Darren Dale wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com [2]> wrote:
>
>> On 25-02-2014 4:31 pm, Darren Dale wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/license [1] [1]
>>> states:
>>>
>>> "If you use the GPL version of PyQt then any code you develop
>>> with it
>>> must be distributed under a compatable license. Like the GPL
>>> version
>>> of Qt, PyQt grants an exception to the GPL that specifies the
>>> list of
>>> licenses that you may use. The full text of the exception can be
>>> found
>>> in the PyQt source package."
>>>
>>> I have read the GPL_EXCEPTION.TXT file that is distributed with
>>> the
>>> PyQt4 sources, but this file is not present in the PyQt5 sources.
>>> Do
>>> the same exceptions apply to PyQt5?
>>
>> No, but thats not an ideological change. What (GPL incompatible)
>> license do you want use?
>
> I contribute to several projects that use different licenses. Im
> primarily concerned with the BSD and LGPL, but also Python and MIT.

As far as I am aware all of those are compatible with the GPL and so do 
not need an exception.

Phil