[PyQt] PyQt Licensing Issue

[Phil Thompson]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:29:07 +0100, "Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj at urpla.net>
wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 December 2009, 13:25:15 Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 17:46:20 +0530 (IST), Prashant Saxena
>>
>> <animator333 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I am planning to release the beta version(Testing) of an application
>> > written using python+PyQt.
>> > I won't be including the source code with the installation. Do I have
>> > to purchase the PyQt commercial license now itself or I can purchase
>> > before releasing the commercial version. It'll surely take 2-3 months
>> > before I reach to final version and releasing
>> > the commercial version is purely based on the users opinion and
>> > success.
>>
>> You need commercial licenses before you distribute your application to
>> your users for the first time - not when you release the final version.
> 
> If I understand the PyQt licensing correctly, he should have bought the 
> license before start developing, shouldn't he?

No. That used to be the case but with the release of the LGPL Qt I relaxed
that condition.

Phil