On Thu Jun 23 21:32:47 BST 2011, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > On Thursday, June 23, 2011 04:33:20 am Phil Thompson wrote: > > > You haven't said what license you want to use for your code. If you use > > the GPL version of PyQt then your license must be compatible with the > > GPL. > > Sure, that's true *while* the application uses PyQt, but what about *after* > PyQt is replaced with PySide? I suppose one could argue that there is some > ethical commitment due to the history, but I'm not seeing any commitment in > a legal technical sense. I think that after all technical reliance from > PyQt is replaced by technical reliance on PySide, the project is free to > relicense is it wishes in compliance with the reliance on PySide.
I don't think Phil said anything different to that. > Or think about it this way: I write a large project using a GPL library. > I wish to have more control so I clean-room re-implement the GPL library. > I'm now the sole author of the entire relevant software stack and I believe > I'm free of the GPL. I don't see how the fact that Nokia (in the case of > PySide/PyQt) is the one bank-rolling the clean-room reimplementation > changes this. If the entity funding the effort doesn't have a bearing on the use of the library then why bring them into the argument? David _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt