Hi,
I’m wondering about an licensing issue I have. I’m working internally in company using Pymel developing internal tools for Maya.
I’ve been thinking of switching to Qt for the ease of making UIs. Do I (company) need any form of paid licence for using Qt?
Or does this qualify in GPL licence?
Thanks for clearing this up.
In short, as long as you do not plan to sell or release your tools outside that should be covered by the GPL. From the homepage:
The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to organizations (including companies), too; an organization can make a modified version and use it internally without ever releasing it outside the organization.
But if you release the modified version to the public in some way, the GPL requires you to make the modified source code available to the program’s users, under the GPL.
Thus, the GPL gives permission to release the modified program in certain ways, and not in other ways; but the decision of whether to release it is up to you.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-faq.en.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic
Regards,
Thorsten
Ok, so there should be no problem. Thanks for fast reply, I’ll definitely start to hang out on these forums 
You can also use PySide which has a much less restrictive license. Once again, check out Nathan’s guide: http://nathanhorne.com/?p=451