[PyKDE] Licensing issues

Eli Carter eli.carter at inet.com
Fri Aug 30 17:39:14 BST 2002


Phil Thompson wrote:
> Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> 
>> It seems I made a serious mistake.
>>
>> The Red Hat RPMs list PyKDE, PyQt, and sip as GPL, as do some 
>> erroneous websites. However, it seems like the license is more of a 
>> BSD or MIT license. Looking on the Sourceforge site Jim Bublitz set 
>> up, he lists PyKDE as MIT.
>>
>> Oops. I listed sip, PyQt and PyKDE as GPL without really thinking too 
>> much of it.
>>
>> I want to get a confirmation of PyKDE, PyQt, and sip all being MIT 
>> licensed. If so, I will go and fix everything up.
> 
> 
> The current release of SIP and PyQt is MIT. The next release of both 
> will be GPL.
> 
> Phil

No objection, but I was wondering what your reason for the change was?

Eli
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