On Wednesday 13 January 2021 14:17:32 John Thornton wrote: > I wonder how that filters down to PyQt which we use if at all? > > It does sound like a bait and switch thing... > > > From February onward, everyone, including open-source Qt users, will > > require valid Qt accounts to download Qt binary packages > > AFAIK you don't need any Qt binary packages to use PyQt5 but no clue > how this affects the PyQt5 folks. > > JT
I may be crying wolf, but I see the same potential gotcha that we had with gif's all those years ago when they let it become a web std, and Compuserve suddenly came up with that submarine patent and demanded a rather high priced fee for the use of anything that could generate a gif. The net result being that 95% of the gif's vanished from the web in about 60 days, and I don't know if I have any survivors on this machine that aren't archives from 25+ years ago. A lot of people lost a lot of shirts, having worked on that code for several years. QT's parents, TrollTech, might decide to do the same thing to us. If what I see being committed on github is not to be suspect at some point, I'd sure want that OK for it to be both in writing by their legal representative, and widely published right along side the gpl in our Docs. That event I see as a possibility, so I've not made any moves to recreate what I've done with pyvcp but using qt's tools. I think it would improve the looks of our gui's, but at what potential cost? > > On 1/13/2021 12:55 PM, andy pugh wrote: > > https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-offering-changes-2020 > > > > Has anyone considered the ramifications of the requirement to have a > > License to develop with QT? This sounds very similar to the EtherCAT > > position, and it was decided some time ago that made EtherCAT > > something that we couldn't distribute as part of LinuxCNC. > > > > And does the recent switch to commercial-only support matter to us? > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
