[PyQt] Re: PyQt Licensing

[Phil Thompson]

On Thu, 07 May 2009 05:58:12 +0200, Alberto Berti <alberto at metapensiero.it>
wrote:
>>>>>> "A Corsaire" == A Corsaire <corzaire at gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
>     Phil>> First off, many thanks for not pestering me about this - it is
>     Phil>> greatly appreciated.
>     Phil>> 
>     Phil>> In a nutshell, the PyQt licensing will not be changed in the
>     Phil>> short term.
> 
>     Corsaire>  that Python misses out on PyQt becoming
>     Corsaire> the de-facto standard GUI library we sorely
>     Corsaire> need.
> 
> Differently from you, i'm  quite fine with PyQt licensing as it is now
> and i hope that Phil will have time and resources to continue its great
> work.
> 
> What's i don't understand is the reason for not publishing a read only
> repository with the gpl code and even better also a bugtracker that
> allows developers and distribution packagers to track bugs and if and
> when their fix was applied to the sources.
> 
> It seems to me that this would be a great help for the community and
> little effort for Phil and co. and the same time i don't see how it can
> damage Phil's business.
> 
> The question raised already, but never receved a response.
> 
> If this is just a problem about resources to setup and maintain it i can
> help with this. I even checked the possibility to apply all the history
> of the snapshots to a repo in the hope of tracking code changes, but
> older snapshots where unavailable last time i tried. Phil, please, could
> you share your thougts on this, frankly?

These are on the TODO list - just not the highest priority at the moment -
I'm thinking some time over the summer.

A public repo for PyQt is more of a problem because it's contents would
look nothing like the contents of the real repo. Technically possible, just
more work to implement.

Phil