[PyQt] My license mess

[Jorge Tornero]

Hello All,

Thank you David and Phil for your kind answers. I think I'll try to begin
from scratch with the file later. There is a nice tutorial on how to do it
(the QQ article itself) and doesn't seem to be too difficult to achieve.

Anyway, this licensing stuff is sometimes so confusing. I guess everyone
has passed through this, so I guess I'll find the way sooner or later.

Again, Thanks.

Jorge

2015-06-22 12:28 GMT+02:00 David Boddie <david at boddie.org.uk>:

> On Mon Jun 22 09:21:26 BST 2015, Phil Thompson wrote:
>
>  My personal opinion (I am not a lawyer) is that you can use whatever
>> license you want so long as it is compatible with the other bits of
>> software you are using. The files you mention are implementations of
>> boilerplate code and you can't really write them any other way - they
>> are almost like configuration files.
>>
>
> As far as I can see, the setup.py file and the files in the python
> directory are basically just implementing the required interfaces in the
> simplest way, which is really the only useful way to implement them.
>
> So, since there's very little room for creative expression, I'd expect it
> to be difficult to argue that the original implementations were even
> copyrightable, and there are probably plenty of differences between these
> implementations and the original ones. If someone started writing these
> interfaces from scratch, they would end up with something very much like
> the ones in the python directory.
>
> My advice to the author is: if you still feel uncomfortable about those
> files, start with an empty file for each of them and use the API
> documentation to write them from scratch. I personally don't see that this
> is necessary, but I understand if you want to go to the trouble of doing
> it.
>
> Really, those examples should have been permissively licensed in the first
> place. I don't remember why they weren't.
>
> Thanks to Jorge for finding the current location of the Qt Quarterly site:
>
>   https://doc.qt.io/archives/qq/
>
> David
>
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