[PyQt] Help with PyQt licensing question

Yao Ko koyao at raptr.com
Fri Oct 22 06:16:05 BST 2010


On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Kyle Covington <kyle at red-r.org> wrote:
...
> Also thinking about Elias's question.  Windows is closed sourced and
> commercial.  Windows is used to open and run Python and Windows is able to
> execute Python scripts which can run PyQt.  So by extension GPL should not
> be allowed on a Windows computer???

I believe GPL has this scenario covered under "Systems Libraries" exception:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs

Yao


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