LGPL license for Qt 4.5

[sturlamolden]

On Jan 14, 3:11 pm, "drobi... at gmail.com" <drobi... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 14, 7:57 am, sturlamolden <sturlamol... at yahoo.no> wrote:
>
> > According to a Norwegian publication, Nokia will release Qt under LGPL
> > as of version 4.5.
>
> > If I had stocks in Riverbank Computing ltd., I would sell them now...
>
> > For the rest of us, this is fantastic news.
>
> >http://digi.no/php/art.php?id=800922
>
> http://www.qtsoftware.com/about/licensing
>
> Not sure what this means for PyQt

It means that:
- If Riverbank keep their dual GPL licensing scheme, somebody else
will make an LGPL 'QtPython' instead.
- If Riverbank change PyQt to LGPL, they will loose most of their
revenue form PyQt.

In either case, Qt will be available under the same licensing terms as
wxWidgets.

As of today, the main reason to prefer wxPython over PyQt is the
license. With an LGPL'd Qt, I'd rather ask what this will mean for
wxPython.