[PyKDE] Licensing questions

[Phil Thompson]

On Saturday 06 January 2007 10:45 am, Knut Morten Johansson wrote:
> On Saturday 06 January 2007 05:47, Kenneth McDonald wrote:
> > If one wants to build an application that uses pykde, there seem to be
> > three different licenses that need to be considered;
> >
> > 1) The pykde license.
> > 2) The kde license.
> > 3) The Qt license.
>
> It's more like 4 or 2 depending on how you look at it.
> 1) The Qt license.
> 2) The PyQt license.
> 3) The KDE license.
> 4) The PyKDE License.
>
> But it's simple anyway, as long as you don't try to make it difficult.
> (That is usually done by trying to think of elaborate ways to get around
> the GPL).
>
> But the PyQt license have to mach the Qt license, GPL-GPL or
> commercial-commercia(aka closed sopurce)l(I guess you can can use GLP PyQt
> with commercial Qt, but then your app has to be GPL anyway, so you are
> essensially at the GPL-GPL scenario). *1

No, you cannot use the GPL PyQt with the commercial Qt.

> And the KDE libraries are even simpler they are LGPL and BSD. And I guess
> the PyKDE libraries match and are LGPL(please veryfy this as I'm not 100%
> on this one). Basicly you can use those libs regardless of your apps
> license.

Don't guess, check. PyKDE is GPL.

> But when you use any KDE library you also use Qt, period.
>
> So whatever you are doing with KDE or PyKDE, it's the Qt license that
> decides. If you want do do a closed source application you need the
> corresponding Qt and PyQt license.
>
> Best regards
> Knut
>
> 1) I'm not sure if PyQt does the QPL or not,  but that give rights to use
> other non GPL open source licenses.

PyQt is not licensed under the QPL.

Phil