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

[Stephen Aylward]

Hi,

So - I'm not fully following the thread....is this code in CTK?   If
so, is it available under a BSD license?

If it is not in CTK, then we can instruct people on how to download
and use it to build CTK - and if it is LGPL, we can even use
superbuild if we also include instructions on how to manually do it in
the documentation.

However, if it is in CTK's git repo, then it must be a BSD license.
This was determined from the start of CTK.   Regardless of how it is
used in CTK, all code in CTK must be BSD, or confusion ensues for
future users...and companies will simply walk away from CTK if they
know it contains any LGPL code - lawyers don't care about nuances of
how it is used, they simply will deny their company's ability to use
it.

Thanks,
Stephen

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>
>
>
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