[PyQt] LGPL license.

[Sundance]

Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> You're basically restating your previous point, without debating mine.
> The language choice affects companies much more than £350 /
> programmer.

Hi Giovanni, hi Phil, hi everybody,

Giovanni, I'm... a bit uncomfortable writing this because I generally 
agree with you, and don't want to come across as confrontational, but I 
think there is still something worth pointing out that I feel you left 
out from your reasoning.

In my (limited) experience, a major parameter in language choice in 
medium- to large-size companies is developer availability. Languages for 
which developers are easier to find get a significant advantage (hence 
the commercial success of PHP, for instance).

>From this, it follows that fostering a broad ecosystem of developers 
does help your language in the end, so those small-scales developers for 
whom £350 is a big deal do actually matter to you, indirectly. Actually, 
I think it goes even more so for those developers that only start 
dabbling for whom the option of eventually relicensing their product and 
selling it might make a difference.

So, no LGPL for PyQt might mean less small-scale developers picking up 
Python for their Qt development, which in turn means less Python 
developers out there as a whole and a lesser chance for bigger companies 
to eventually settle for Python as their chosen tech.

Or something to that extent anyway. Hard to tell how much weight that 
reasoning actually carries in practice. Not too much, I hope (but I dare 
not be optimistic).

Sill, that's why I, for one, *hope* PyQt will eventually end up LGPL in 
a commercially sustainable manner (the best option being sponsorship 
from Nokia... one can dream!). But that's only a hope, one I barely dare 
voice at that, and is no way a demand. :)

Bye,

-- S.