[PyQt] PyQt Licensing

[A Corsaire]

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:47 AM, Phil Thompson
<phil at riverbankcomputing.com>wrote:

> First off, many thanks for not pestering me about this - it is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> In a nutshell, the PyQt licensing will not be changed in the short term.


Thanks for clarifying, Phil - I am sure that this is a decision made after a
lot of thought. Without in any way implying that you are obliged to give
your handiwork (or your income) away, I do think that this is a worst-case
outcome for the Python community as a whole. It means that PyQt development
won't open up and become more community driven, that we (and other
customers) still have to worry about the what-if-Phil-gets-hit-by-a-bus
scenario, and that Python misses out on PyQt becoming the de-facto standard
GUI library we sorely need. Furthermore, there is little incentive for
anyone (apart from someone like Trolltech themselves, perhaps) to start a
competing project that matches Qt's licensing, because you might just decide
to LGPL PyQt at that point and make their work obsolete. A sad outcome for
Python, and an unenviable position for you to be in.



Cheers,



Corzaire
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