[PyQt] PyQt Licensing

[Phil Thompson]

On Wed, 6 May 2009 16:50:47 +0300, "Ville M. Vainio" <vivainio at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Phil Thompson
> <phil at riverbankcomputing.com> wrote:
> 
>> re-licensing of GPL code. In other words if you have a successful GPL
>> application and want to sell a commercial version then you can do - so
>> long
>> as you buy commercial PyQt licenses before you start selling. To do this
>> you have to use the LGPL version of Qt as I think the commercial Qt
>> license
>> still imposes the restriction.
> 
> So what does this mean, in brief? Suppose that I have an app that has
> been developed by 3 developers in-house without buying the license
> (i.e. it has been effectively GPL, though not shipped), and it's
> decided that this application will be sold / shipped with non-open
> source license. Do I need to buy one commercial PyQt license, or 3?

1 for each developer.

> Does that license give you the right to ship as many instances of the
> program as you want?

Yes.

Phil