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mottosso / Qt.py

Minimal Python 2 & 3 shim around all Qt bindings - PySide, PySide2, PyQt4 and PyQt5.
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Drop PyQt because it may be illegal to import a GPL lib from a lib under MIT #373

Closed KOLANICH closed 1 year ago

KOLANICH commented 1 year ago

PyQt5 is released under the GPL v3 license and under a commercial license that allows for the development of proprietary applications.

GPL is a viral license, the point of viral licenses is to infect everything. If one uses any GPL lib from a program/lib, that lib/program is legally required to be under GPL or AGPL, unless the copyright holder has given you a permission.

That's why this lib is mostly unneeded: PySide2 is already under a permissive license, PyQt cannot be used at all in permissively-licensed tools, and supporting both versions of PySide has a very minor benefit.

Suggestion: drop PyQt support as soon as possible.

mottosso commented 1 year ago

Thanks, we will take your advice under consideration.