[PyQt] My license mess

[Phil Thompson]

On 22/06/2015 7:48 am, Jorge Tornero - Listas wrote:
> Good morning:
> 
> I've developed some custom widgets under PyQt4 which I've uploaded to a
> github repo. Following the example found in QtQuarterly number 26, at
> https://doc.qt.io/archives/qq/qq26-pyqtdesigner.html, I've created also
> plugins for having those widgets available in Qt Designer. For such a
> task and its deployement, I've modified the setup included in the code,
> as well as followed the code for plugin production.
> 
> I'm concerned about license issues and, because I'm sort of newcomer,
> I'm wondering if I've made things right. I am pretty sure GPL license 
> could be
> applied to my work, but I don't really know which formalities should I
> adapt in my files (I mean file headers mentioning license). I'm sure
> about the files I've created from scratch (say the class implementation
> for the widgets) but I'm not so sure regarding to the files I've 
> derived
> from the files provided in the sample code (say setup script and
> plugin files, which have been modified for my needs).
> 
> So I would like to ask you for some kind of review of that files or 
> just
> a some directions about how to proceed with that. The github repository
> is allocated at
> 
> https://github.com/jtornero/jtCustomQtWidgets
> 
> And the "problematic" files are setup.py and the contents of folder 
> /python
> 
> Any other directions would be appreciated as well

My personal opinion (I am not a lawyer) is that you can use whatever 
license you want so long as it is compatible with the other bits of 
software you are using. The files you mention are implementations of 
boilerplate code and you can't really write them any other way - they 
are almost like configuration files.

Phil