Re:A Book about Qt5
by amelius on Monday March 04, 2019 @02:35AM
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Not to mention the expensive licenses for both pyqt and qt itself.
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PyQt5 is GPL licensed. Not expensive, but perhaps not suitable for your closed source project. There is also a commercial license available, probably that is expensive.
PySide2 is LGPL licensed, so more likely to be suitable for you, since it can be used without having to provide the source of your application.
Both libraries serve the same purpose of providing Qt5 bindings for Python in slightly different ways. PySide2 has become officially supported by Qt recently, and has generally been the preferred option for closed source development due to the licensing.
Re:A Book about Qt5
by marioflach on Monday March 04, 2019 @03:58AM
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Qt is licensed under the LGPL. Same goes for PySide.
Yes, I'm talking about use of qt in a closed-source commercial product.
You can ship a closed-source product with LGPL licensed libraries like PySide/PyQt as long as you respect the license (most difficult part to comply with is relinkability by the user if you're shipping with static libs) [1].