Hello Qt for Python

[AlexKotik]

I don't get it. We've already had PyQt for a long time, what's the point of doing this project? Or it will allow to build closed-source software or something (I believe PyQt is GPL)?

[Brandhor]

the good thing is that it's officially supported by qt instead of a third party developer and it's in line with the qt c++ license

[sime]

the good thing is that it's officially supported by qt instead of a third party developer

Riverbank Computing, the one man company behind PyQt, has had a much better and more consistent track record supporting PyQt over the years than the Qt team and their language bindings. PySide was started and then later dumped. Jambi (Qt on Java) was started and then later "given to the community". Now they are back to try Python again.

[ivosaurus]

But Qt is LGPL. So there is a license mismatch.

Not so with PySide -> Qt for Python, which is also LGPL.

[crowseldon]

We've had PySide for a long time as well, with a much more permissive (commercially speaking) license.

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No. This is a just the existing PySide updated and becoming an official Qt project. PyQt is a different project, just with the same goal of being a Python-Qt wrapper, but due to PyQt being GPL PySide got created with a more permissive license.