[PyQt] PyQt license

[Kyle Altendorf]

On August 20, 2019 6:29:21 AM EDT, BPL <spscener84 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Kristof,
>
>I'm curious, when you say you won't make it open-source, which method
>of
>deployment & distribution you guys are picking up? Asking as your
>choices
>in this regard are very limited in python land. If you decided to use
>any of the existing freezers {bbFreeze, py2exe, pyInstaller, cx_Freeze,
>py2app} your code would be very easy to unpack. The only choice I know
>that
>could bring you enough "protection" are either nuitka(mature enough) or
>beeware(not ready to use on production).

DRM doesn't really work.  You are giving the user the code to execute, they have it.  Licenses are there to allow legal action, not technical action.  If you are prepared to take legal action then obfuscation isn't particularly relevant.  If you aren't prepared to take legal action then obfuscation isn't particularly relevant.  The simple fact that PyQt itself is dual licensed should make this clear.

I am a little curious though.  What part of the IDE is useful to be proprietary but still distributed for free?  How will it be leveraged to make money etc.

Cheers,
-kyle