[PyKDE] Licensing issues

[Phil Thompson]

Eli Carter wrote:

> Phil Thompson wrote:
> 
>> Jonathan Gardner wrote:
>>
>>> It seems I made a serious mistake.
>>>
>>> The Red Hat RPMs list PyKDE, PyQt, and sip as GPL, as do some 
>>> erroneous websites. However, it seems like the license is more of a 
>>> BSD or MIT license. Looking on the Sourceforge site Jim Bublitz set 
>>> up, he lists PyKDE as MIT.
>>>
>>> Oops. I listed sip, PyQt and PyKDE as GPL without really thinking too 
>>> much of it.
>>>
>>> I want to get a confirmation of PyKDE, PyQt, and sip all being MIT 
>>> licensed. If so, I will go and fix everything up.
>>
>>
>>
>> The current release of SIP and PyQt is MIT. The next release of both 
>> will be GPL.
>>
>> Phil
> 
> 
> No objection, but I was wondering what your reason for the change was?



To match Qt's licensing model - there will also be a commercial license.

Phil