[PyQt] licence issue

[Phil Thompson]

On 25/07/2015 8:08 pm, Kevin Mcintyre wrote:
> I've re-installed 5.4~ below are approximate commands and the remnants 
> of
> build.
> 
> I backed myself into the upgrade and didn't have sip 4.16.9 the 1st 
> attempt.
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu-desktop:~/PyQt-gpl-5.5.1$ cat
> /home/ubuntu/PyQt-gpl-5.5.1/qtdetail.out
> Open Source
> shared
> 
> # get and install pyqt
> wget
> http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/static/Downloads/PyQt5/PyQt-gpl-5.5.1-snapshot-7ff58420e62e.tar.gz
> 
> gzip -df PyQt-gpl-5.5.1-snapshot-7ff58420e62e.tar.gz
> tar -xvf PyQt-gpl-5.5.1-snapshot-7ff58420e62e.tar
> rm PyQt-gpl-5.5.1-snapshot-7ff58420e62e.tar
> mv PyQt-gpl-5.5.1-snapshot-7ff58420e62e/ PyQt-gpl-5.5.1
> cd PyQt-gpl-5.5.1
> 
> python configure.py --qmake=/home/ubuntu/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/bin/qmake
> sudo ln -s /usr/include/python2.7 /usr/local/include/python2.7
> make
> sudo make install
> 
> python configure.py --qmake=/home/ubuntu/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/bin/qmake -e 
> QtWebkit

The previous fix wasn't a fix at all - but should be done properly in 
tonight's snapshot. However I'm not convinced that you used the same 
version of Qt (ie. the same qmake) for both your attempts.

Phil

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Phil Thompson 
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 25/07/2015 9:38 am, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 25.07.2015 um 10:26 schrieb Phil Thompson:
>>> 
>>>> On 25/07/2015 5:20 am, Kevin Mcintyre wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> python configure.py --qmake=/home/ubuntu/Qt/5.5/gcc_64/bin/qmake -e
>>>>> QtWebkit
>>>>> Querying qmake about your Qt installation...
>>>>> Determining the details of your Qt installation...
>>>>> This is the GPL version of PyQt 5.5.1-snapshot-7ff58420e62e 
>>>>> (licensed
>>>>> under
>>>>> the
>>>>> GNU General Public License) for Python 2.7.6 on linux2.
>>>>> Error: This version of PyQt5 and the commercial version of Qt have
>>>>> incompatible
>>>>> licenses.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Must I buy a licence to build PyQt for QtWebkit or should I stay at
>>>>> 5.4.1
>>>>> for Qt where this seemed to work?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Are you using the commercial version of Qt? If not can you send me 
>>>> the
>>>> qtdetail.out file generated by configure.py?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>  This is most probably the same issue already reported by me. THat 
>>>> was
>>> related to using Qt provided via the Online/Offline installer. Phil
>>> included a change in the recent snapshot.
>>> 
>> 
>> He's using the latest snapshot. There seems to be little consistency 
>> in
>> what QLibraryInfo::licensee() returns, either for the commercial or 
>> LGPL
>> versions of Qt.
>> 
>> Phil
>> 
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