[PySide] Honkin Idea for PySide's thriving

[Trémouilles David]

Hi,

"Make PySide the *next* Gui toolkit for Python !"
is a Great goal.

Even if including PySide in python, is not the
best thing to do now, the issues related to its
possible inclusion should be consider as soon as
possible. Especially this one raised by Matti Airas:
"However, I believe they would require a license change from LGPL to 
PSL. I think this would be doable for the individual contributors, but a 
bigger question mark would be the Nokia-copyrighted contributions. I'm 
not sure whether they were sold to Digia when they bought Qt. If so, 
we'd need to convince Digia to let go of their commercial prospects 
towards PySide. They haven't shown much practical interest so far, so I 
don't know whether it would be feasible or not. However, if the 
copyright is still owned by Nokia, it might get hairy - you'd need to 
find a person within the current, heavily pruned organization and 
negotiate the licence change. It could still be doable, but not 
necessarily straightforward."


David


Le 21/03/13 03:09, Christian Tismer a écrit :
> On 3/20/13 8:52 AM, Aaron Richiger wrote:
>> Am 20.03.2013 15:54, schrieb Stephan Deibel:
>>> Christian Tismer wrote:
>>>> Make PySide the new standard Gui toolkit for Python!
>>> I'm also a bit concerned it would slow things down and might be hard
>>> given the copyright ownership.  It seems like an idea to keep in mind
>>> for the future, but there is much to do before I would attempt this.
>>>
>>> - Stephan
>> Great idea in theory, but I have to agree with the others, that I prefer
>> PySide available via site-packages for the named reasons. But I'm very
>> glad, that we are moving and that there seems to be already a little bit
>> of effort towards PySide for Qt5 and bug fixing / code review
>> improvements. We are still working a lot on PySide for Android and will
>> provide you with more information as soon as we have taken the most
>> important first steps!
> Well, thanks for all the input!
>
> I'm essentially also in favor to have PySide in site-packages.
> My enthusiastic mail was more expressing what I like to see
> PySide perceived as, without necessarily having it as a super-large
> battery. (As a side, the Python Batteries have actually grown too large
> already and we need way to strip that down...).
>
> So what I want is to make PySide a very supported, very well acknowledged
> package that gets its #1 recommendation from Python, something like that.
> I don't want to slow down the development and avoid licensing issues.
>
> But getting many people interested in working on PySide could be a
> benefit if it would get its place in Python.org.
>
> Maybe we can move the mailing list there, and or have some announcement
> on python-announce that we want to improve PySide and spread the word?
>
> cheers - chris
>