[PyQt] Licence compatibility

Phil Thompson phil at riverbankcomputing.com
Sun Jan 22 09:39:28 GMT 2017


On 22 Jan 2017, at 12:16 am, Don Johnston <services at inventory.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> I intend to develop software and I had been planning to give it an AGPL v3 licence. I want people to be able to use PyQt to improve my software. According to my reasoning, that can't be done unless I issue my softrware with a GPL v3 licence, not an AGPL v3 licence. Is my reasoning correct?

You can use any license so long as it is compatible with the GPL v3. It is not for me to say if the AGPL v3 falls into that category (or not).

Phil


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