[PyQt] Re: Licensing for PyQt?

Giovanni Bajo rasky at develer.com
Tue Jan 20 14:00:10 GMT 2009


On 1/20/2009 1:43 PM, Wolfgang Keller wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:37:47 +0000 (UTC)
> David F <daelfin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> After the announcement that Qt 4.5 will be released as LGPL,
>> has it been decided if PyQt will do the same?
> 
> Even if PyQt will not be made available under LGPL just like Qt, what
> would prevent one from implementing closed-source PyQt applications,
> using the commercially licensed PyQt with the LGPL licensed Qt?

Nothing, as long as you satisfy the license requirements (so you need to 
ship dynamically-linked Qt libraries *BUT NOT* dynamically-linked PyQt 
libraries).
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Giovanni Bajo
Develer S.r.l.
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