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Nokia Makes LGPL Version of PyQt

Posted by timothy on from the if-not-one-way-then-another dept.

EtaCarinae writes "Nokia didn't succeed in convincing Riverbank to change its licensing terms on PyQt, and so decided to create their own LGPL'ed version of it. From the FAQ at the PySide site: 'Nokia's initial research into Python bindings for Qt involved speaking with Riverbank Computing, the makers of PyQt. We had several discussions with them to see if it was possible to use PyQt to achieve our goals. Unfortunately, a common agreement could not be found , so in the end we decided to proceed with PySide.'"

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  1. Kudos to Nokia by gavron · · Score: 4, Funny
    If you cannot get the source to open-source, open-source the source.

    Kudos to Nokia.

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    1. Re:Kudos to Nokia by nstlgc · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'll pay for my software exactly the amount that I'm asking you for it. If not, buzz off and go download somebody else's stuff.

      --
      I'm Rocco. I'm the +5 Funny man.
  2. Re:Python and QT going mobile. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    working towards using QT as a (the) UI-toolkit

    If they're going to be using Apple QuickTime as the user interface toolkit, I predict it's going to be a fucking disaster.

    Perhaps they should consider using Qt instead.