license for binary distribution

[j9ac9k]

Ideally in the future Timeview will come with a standalone installer.

However, if we distribute TimeView, with PyQt5, we will need to release that version of TimeView under GPL-3 license.

If we distribute a native installer that grabs PyQt5 from the web, we can distribute that under the MIT license.

There is a thread on riverbankcomputing that details some use case scenarios here:

https://riverbankcomputing.com/pipermail/pyqt/2016-September/038135.html

Question is, does it make sense to distribute TimeView, as a standalone installer, under the GPL-3 license and otherwise distribute under the MIT license?

[lxkain]

Why not stick with an installer that grabs PyQt5 from the web?

[j9ac9k]

I'm fine with that, and it would certainly simplify the licensing requirements, but I'm not sure if any of the native installation solutions at our disposal support a "net-install" type of mechanism.

Most python app -> native installer schemes I've seen package everything up, including the dependencies; not to say that there isn't a tool out there that we could use.

Doing a net-install definitely helps with having to host a 2GB binary!

[lxkain]

I think we should at least try for this. Perhaps the installer payload is one that does the actual "net-install"?

[j9ac9k]

hmm... I'm reading through the pynsist docs here https://pynsist.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I'm not sure if I'm reading the docs right, but I think you can setup the installer to download a wheel from pypi on install.

That only would qualify a windows binary though.