[Ctk-developers] PythonQt: No Commercial Usage (was Re: Indiana License ?)

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Florian,

  Thanks a lot for your precision. I did not pay attention to the
'alternatively' section.

regards

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Florian Link <florian.link at mevis.de> wrote:
>
>  Hi everyone,
>
> if you continue reading the header file, it says:
>
> ** GNU Lesser General Public License Usage
> ** Alternatively, this file may be used under the terms of the GNU Lesser
> ** General Public License version 2.1 as published by the Free Software
> ** Foundation and appearing in the file LICENSE.LGPL included in the
> ** packaging of this file.  Please review the following information to
> ** ensure the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 requirements
> ** will be met: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html.
>
> Note the "Alternatively", so these files are available as LGPL as well, but
> they are not available
> under a commercial Qt license.
>
> Appart from this, these files are only used for generation of the wrappers,
> the generated wrappers
> themselves are not copyrighted as far as I am concerned (or some lawyer
> might argue that an LGPL
> tool that generates files generates LGPLed files...). The generator used to
> be GPL, but Nokia changed that
> to LGPL a while ago.
>
> The wrapper generator is not part of the MeVisLab SDK, nor is it compiled
> into the PythonQt DLLs, only the generated wrappers are.
>
> regards,
> Florian
>
>
> Am 10.03.2011 09:05, schrieb Mathieu Malaterre:
>>
>> Hi Julien !
>>
>>   Thanks for taking the time to answer. I have yet another question on
>> the same subject. Could you guys comment on the license used in
>> pythonqt:
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/commontk/PythonQt/blob/patched/generator/abstractmetabuilder.cpp
>>
>> ...
>> ** This file is part of the Qt Script Generator project on Qt Labs.
>> **
>> ** $QT_BEGIN_LICENSE:LGPL$
>> ** No Commercial Usage
>> ** This file contains pre-release code and may not be distributed.
>> ** You may use this file in accordance with the terms and conditions
>> ** contained in the Technology Preview License Agreement accompanying
>> ** this package.
>> ...
>>
>>   As far as I know PythonQt is already used in MevisLab, which is a
>> commercial product.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Julien Finet<julien.finet at kitware.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Mathieu,
>>> You're right, it's an apache license, the commit has been reverted.
>>> Thanks for the notification,
>>> Julien.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
>>> <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>  CTK is released under an *apache* license, right ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/commontk/CTK/commit/8ae20909af8742ee174caee6dc667e17a6697f83#LICENSE
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> --
>>>> Mathieu
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>>>
>>
>>
>
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Mathieu