[PyKDE] Which license applies to portable python scripts?

[Greg Fortune]

I think that's true in both respects.  Basically, the Qt license just covers 
the development of the application, not the usage.  If you develop under 
Qt3.x GPL X11 and someone compiles the application for Windows under a 
commercial license and you are allowed to distribute the windows version as 
well as the GPL version.  You will see offers to compile under Windows from 
time to time on the qt mailing list and the trolltech employees who frequent 
the mailing list appear to have endorsed it as acceptable.

Greg

> Phil, you made me feel a bad guy with respect to PyQwt-win-nc, but now I
> think you are wrong on both points.
>
> (1) The second paragraph of term 0 of the GPL starts with:
>
>     Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
>     covered by this License; they are outside its scope.  The act of
>     running the Program is not restricted, and ...
>
>     So, it is perfectly legal to feed proprietary scripts into bash or
>     proprietary programs into gcc. Why not the Python interpreter?
>
> (2) Points 4a, 4b and 4c of the Qt-Non-Commercial license do not imply that
>     the programs may only be used in a non-commercial setting. This is
>     clarified in the 'terms of use' section at
>     http://www.trolltech.com/download/qt/noncomm.html :
>     C++ programs developed with Qt-NC (or python scripts made with PyQt-nc)
>     can be released under almost any open source license (a tiny exception
> for the GPL).
>
> Gerard
>
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