<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Henrik Pauli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:henrik.pauli@gmail.com">henrik.pauli@gmail.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;">
<div class="im">On Wednesday 06 May 2009 13:28:15 Attila Csipa wrote:<br>
> On Wednesday 06 May 2009 12:30:02 Henrik Pauli wrote:<br>
> > Hmm... I think strictly said, the licensing of the final product and the<br>
> > development model do not have anything to do with each other. Afterall,<br>
> > it’s not LGPL per se that made Qt’s development model more open, that’s<br>
> > just a separate, just well timed decision.<br>
><br>
> With Qt this is not the case, it has a very firm stance about development<br>
> model and it's relation to the final product license. Legally, you cannot<br>
> start development with a non-commercial Qt license (either community/GPL or<br>
> LGPL) and then switch over to commercial on product release. I believe this<br>
> is why Phil made the licensing change he mentioned - so at least with a<br>
> commercial license of PyQt you can use the LGPL version of Qt and still<br>
> make a commercial product. IANAL, correct me if I'm wrong.<br>
><br>
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</div>I was talking about Qt itself getting developed (by Trolltech / Qt Software)<br>
rather than development *with* Qt. At least I think that was mostly Mr.<br>
Corsaire's concern (cf. Phil getting hit by a bus).<br>
<br>
Actually, same concern can be expressed towards Detlev too, Eric4, while open<br>
source, the only interface to its development we have is here in the mailing<br>
lists; if something happens to Detlev, there's no public repository so it's<br>
not possible to continue where he left it, but one would have to go back to<br>
whatever the last release was.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>The repository for Eric4 *is* publicly available: <a href="http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/eric4-code.html">http://eric-ide.python-projects.org/eric4-code.html</a> <br>
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