[Matplotlib-users] Commercial Use

[Thomas Caswell]

The biggest gotcha would be if you use `pyqt4` or `pyqt5` which are dual
licensed as commercial or GPL (you need to talk to riverbank about that),
however pyside / pyside2 are licensed as LGPL.

To be clear, I am not a lawyer.

If you plan to sell your software you really need to consult an IP lawyer
about these sorts of things.  If you do not have one already, I suspect
that numfocus can refer you to counsel with open source experience.

Tom

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:17 PM Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com> wrote:

> Matplotlib and NumPy are both licensed similarly to Python, so commercial
> use is fine. I think all of the major dependencies are BSD (the AGG
> renderer) or LGPL (gtk, qt, etc.), so you should be good there, too.
>
> Technically speaking, Continuum Analytics and Enthought both sell
> commerical Python distributions that includes these packages without any
> problems.
>
> Cheers!
> Ben Root
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Ayers, Stephen <
> SAyers at stanfordhealthcare.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi All:
>>
>> I’m working with a group who would like to use Matplotlib as part of a
>> software solution for clinical interpretation of genomic data. Has anyone
>> gone through similar processes? Are there any special licensing provisions
>> for commercial use, or we all good?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> —
>> Steve
>>
>>
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