[QScintilla] Any news on the license?

[Alan Garny]

On 2017-05-02 10:38, Phil Thompson wrote:
> On 2 May 2017, at 6:26 am, Alan Garny <agarny at hellix.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Phil,
>> 
>> 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).
>> 
>> 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."
>> 
>> 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.

Ok, then I guess I might have to stick to 2.8.4, even though it got 
released in September 2014, but as far as I can tell it's the last 
version that contains the GPL exception...

Alan