Using community qt creator at workplace

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sathishceog703 | 2020-10-13 08:53:19 UTC | #1

Hi i am your close follower i am using at community version for ui file generation and converting to py files Is that legal or need to get commercial app I am using this only for in-house apps and nothing else please suggest Thanks

martin | 2020-10-18 21:45:48 UTC | #2

Hi @sathishceog703 welcome to the forum!

If you're using PyQt5 (GPL version) the GPL requires you to make the source code available to the users of your application. But only with them, and only on request. It doesn't require you to distribute the application to anyone you don't want to.

If you developed the application in the company (the company owns the copyright) and it's being used in the company (the company is the user) then you're not distributing it.

The PySide2 library is LGPL licensed, so this restriction doesn't apply (you only need to distribute changes you make to PySide2 itself).

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Using community qt creator at workplace was written by Martin Fitzpatrick .

Martin Fitzpatrick has been developing Python/Qt apps for 8 years. Building desktop applications to make data-analysis tools more user-friendly, Python was the obvious choice. Starting with Tk, later moving to wxWidgets and finally adopting PyQt.

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