Gui Advice Needed: wxPython or PyQT ?

Jim Richardson warlock at eskimo.com
Fri May 9 04:46:13 EDT 2003


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On Fri, 9 May 2003 08:49:44 +0100,
 Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thursday 08 May 2003 11:05 pm, David Bolen wrote:
>> Phil Thompson <phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk> writes:
>> > The number of users refers to the number of concurrent users. I
>> > think the Qt license is similar. It is the customer's responsibility
>> > to ensure that the usage does not contravene the license. Most
>> > organisations will buy additional licenses to eliminate the risk -
>> > (...)
>>
>> Are you sure about this?  I think I'll follow up with TrollTech (since
>> this would help me out), but from their Qt commercial license info at
>> http://www.trolltech.com/products/qt/licensing.html:
>>
>> "It is a per-developer license.  It is assigned to an individual. It
>> may be transferred, but only every six months and within the same
>> organization. To transfer a license contact sales at trolltech.com."
>>
>> which sure sounds to me like a pure per-developer license and not a
>> concurrent license.
>>
>> Likewise, from your site the phrase:
>>
>> "The right for a single developer to write applications under both
>> Windows and UNIX/Linux."
>>
>> led me to believe it was a pure per-developer license and not
>> concurrent.  If it's really concurrent, that's a big improvement to my
>> mind.
> 
> The PyQt licenses are based on the Qt ones - but I did make changes and this 
> may have been one of them because I simply didn't want the hassle of tracking 
> individual users. I prefer to spend my time improving the package. A PyQt 
> license is not tied to a named developer.
> 
> Phil
> 

BTW. Thanks for PyQT, it's loads of fun :) 

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