[PyQt] incompatible licenses

Hans-Peter Jansen hpj at urpla.net
Thu Jul 2 14:26:00 BST 2009


Am Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2009 schrieb Frank Lindseth:
> Hi,
>
> On the Riverbank web-site the following documentation can be found:
> Compatibility with Qt Licenses
> The GPL version of PyQt can be used with both the LGPL and GPL
> versions of Qt.
>
> I have installed the LGPL version of Qt SDK (v. 4.5.2) for Mac OS X.
> When I run configure in the PyQt directory I get:
> frankl ~/fl/dev/release/PyQt451 $  python configure.py
> Determining the layout of your Qt installation...
> This is the GPL version of PyQt 4.5.1 (licensed under the GNU General
> Public
> License) for Python 2.5.1 on darwin.
> Error: This version of PyQt and the Desktop edition of Qt have
> incompatible
> licenses.
>
> Do PyQt require qt-mac-opensource-src-4.5.2.tar (source code version)
> or is the error message accurate?

Either use the PyQt snapshot, or extract its Configure.py, fixup the version 
strings on top, and drop into PyQt-4.5.1.

Hth,
Pete


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