<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Phil Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@riverbankcomputing.com">phil@riverbankcomputing.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
First off, many thanks for not pestering me about this - it is greatly<br>
appreciated.<br>
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In a nutshell, the PyQt licensing will not be changed in the short term.</blockquote><div><br>Thanks for clarifying, Phil - I am sure that this is a decision made after a lot of thought. Without in any way implying that you are obliged to give your handiwork (or your income) away, I do think that this is a worst-case outcome for the Python community as a whole. It means that PyQt development won't open up and become more community driven, that we (and other customers) still have to worry about the what-if-Phil-gets-hit-by-a-bus scenario, and that Python misses out on PyQt becoming the de-facto standard GUI library we sorely need. Furthermore, there is little incentive for anyone (apart from someone like Trolltech themselves, perhaps) to start a competing project that matches Qt's licensing, because you might just decide to LGPL PyQt at that point and make their work obsolete. A sad outcome for Python, and an unenviable position for you to be in.<br>
<br><br><br>Cheers,<br><br><br><br>Corzaire<br></div></div>