[QScintilla] Any news on the license?

Alan Garny agarny at hellix.com
Tue May 2 06:26:41 BST 2017


Hi Phil,

Back in March last year, we exchanged a few emails about QScintilla's 
license and the fact that it is now released under GPL v3 only (and 
under a commercial license), i.e. no more linking exceptions as it used 
to be the case before (see 
https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/qscintilla/2016-March/thread.html#1105).

At the time, you said: "Qt is moving to either GPL & commercial or LGPL 
& commercial depending on the nature of the product and I want to have 
things similarly simple. There is an argument (especially given the 
previous exceptions) that QScintilla should be aligned with Qt (and 
therefore be LGPL) rather than, say, QtCharts. I will give that serious 
consideration."

I was therefore wondering whether you had given LGPL+commercial some 
thoughts?

Cheers, Alan.


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