On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:44:54 Matti Airas wrote: > 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.
Hi, I think I should step out of this question - the more I read about it, the less I understand it. > LGPL is somewhat > unsuitable license for examples because you'd be unable to > directly copy code from them when writing non-(L)GPL > software. But the examples are based on PySide which is under LGPL, yet that does not restrict the authors of the examples as far as licensing is concerned. Where is the real difference? Unfortunately anything related to the law, requires a lawyer to explain. Of course, every independent nation has its own laws... Not surprisingly, even in one country, two lawyers will disagree more often than agree. Just like the economists. My problem with BSD is that I can not find "the BSD" - only a series of "BSD like" licences. And of course there are the "Creative Commons" licences, which are also "BSD like", are they not?. Enough to have a negative impact on the Chrismas spirit.. Thank you for taking the trouble to reply - I am sorry for the bother my question caused. Al. -- Algis http://akabaila.pcug.org.au _______________________________________________ PySide mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openbossa.org/listinfo/pyside
