[QScintilla] Any news on the license?

[Phil Thompson]

On 2 May 2017, at 6:26 am, Alan Garny <agarny at hellix.com> wrote:
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> Hi Phil,
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> Back in March last year, we exchanged a few emails about QScintilla's license and the fact that it is now released under GPL v3 only (and under a commercial license), i.e. no more linking exceptions as it used to be the case before (see https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/qscintilla/2016-March/thread.html#1105).
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> At the time, you said: "Qt is moving to either GPL & commercial or LGPL & commercial depending on the nature of the product and I want to have things similarly simple. There is an argument (especially given the previous exceptions) that QScintilla should be aligned with Qt (and therefore be LGPL) rather than, say, QtCharts. I will give that serious consideration."
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> I was therefore wondering whether you had given LGPL+commercial some thoughts?

I have been thinking about it but I haven't come to any conclusion yet. Some circumstances have changed (which I won't go into) and may change again. I promise you that I haven't forgotten about it.

Phil