On 22.12.2010 01:10, ext Algis Kabaila wrote:
Hi Matti,
Are GNU Library General Public Licenses (LGPL) acceptable
licences for contributions to PySide? (You have suggested BSD
type licences recently). AFAIK Qt was licenced under LGPL. Is
that still the case?
Hi,
the licensing of PySide is of course still unchanged (LGPLv2.1). For
that matter, changing the license of existing code would require express
permission from everyone who has committed code, so in practice it's
pretty much guaranteed not to happen.
The examples are a bit of another issue. LGPL is somewhat unsuitable
license for examples because you'd be unable to directly copy code from
them when writing non-(L)GPL software, and that's why I prefer BSD for
any new example contributions. Qt examples were also re-licensed to BSD
in 4.7, so we're just following their lead.
Of course, the majority of the examples are still copied from PyQt and
thus licensed under the GPL, which is even less suited for the purpose.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's much we can do about that issue in
the short term.
Cheers,
ma.
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