Calling GPL code from a Python application

Mike Meyer mwm at mired.org
Wed Jan 4 13:49:20 EST 2006


Heiko Wundram <modelnine at bit-bukket.org> writes:
> I've asked TrollTech more than once for their stance on this, and each time
> they have told me that it's illegal for me to develop an inhouse
> application (such as a frontend to some webapp I've written that's only
> used by us and will never ever be given away commercially) using the Open
> Source edition of Qt (which I have not commercially licensed, of course,
> which is way to expensive for me and Uni won't pay), unless I convince the
> people at my univ to _release_ the code I've written under a GPL-compatible
> open source license itself.

I can't see how they could *require* you to release the code. The GPL
certainly doesn't (or didn't) require that. Possibly they have a
GPL-compatible license that adds that requirement.

        <mike
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