[PyQt] Does the GPL exception hold for PyQt5?

[Darren Dale]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Phil Thompson
<phil at riverbankcomputing.com>wrote:

> On 26-02-2014 1:30 pm, Darren Dale wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Phil Thompson
>> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com [2]> wrote:
>>
>>  On 25-02-2014 4:31 pm, Darren Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hello,
>>>>
>>>> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/license [1] [1]
>>>>
>>>> states:
>>>>
>>>> "If you use the GPL version of PyQt then any code you develop
>>>> with it
>>>> must be distributed under a compatable license. Like the GPL
>>>> version
>>>> of Qt, PyQt grants an exception to the GPL that specifies the
>>>> list of
>>>> licenses that you may use. The full text of the exception can be
>>>> found
>>>> in the PyQt source package."
>>>>
>>>> I have read the GPL_EXCEPTION.TXT file that is distributed with
>>>> the
>>>> PyQt4 sources, but this file is not present in the PyQt5 sources.
>>>> Do
>>>> the same exceptions apply to PyQt5?
>>>>
>>>
>>> No, but thats not an ideological change. What (GPL incompatible)
>>>
>>> license do you want use?
>>>
>>
>> I contribute to several projects that use different licenses. Im
>>
>> primarily concerned with the BSD and LGPL, but also Python and MIT.
>>
>
> As far as I am aware all of those are compatible with the GPL and so do
> not need an exception.
>
>
Thank you for the clarification.

Darren
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