[Tutor] OT python Licences

[Brian van den Broek]

Dave S said unto the world upon 12/07/2005 05:49:
> This is a bit OT but here goes.
> 
> My work wants me to write a fairly large python script to analyze some
> technical ASCII data files. Python and its libraries are GPL.
> 
> That being the case am I right in thinking that my script would also
> have to be GPL and I would have to inform my employer as I hand it over ?
> 
> Secondly it would have to run in Windows, The results could pop up on a
> DOS window. However I was looking at QT until I read the Windows
> license. Are there any widget libraries that would allow me to program
> for windows commercially without any license or fees ?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Dave
> 

Apologies if this is a dupe; flaky wifi connection on my end.

Python's not GPL. It is under the Python license, which allows for 
non-free (speech sense) uses that the GPL doesn't. It is 
GPL-compatible. (And, just in case, its use for anything other than 
Python is strongly discouraged.)

<http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#are-there-copyright-restrictions-on-the-use-of-python>

Best,

Brian vdB