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PySimpleGUI is now closed-source (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ebits21@lemmy.ca to c/python@programming.dev

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Previously LGPL, now re-licensed as closed-source/commercial. Previous code taken down.

Commercial users pay $99/year, free for personal use but each user has to make a free account after a trial period.

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[–] silver@lemmy.brendan.ie 17 points 9 months ago

This set of actions (making non Foss and deleting Foss code) will essentially blacklist it from any company that has used it in the past.

Last place I was at the process for getting legal to review and sign off on specific versions of a Foss was about 6 months, with one of the fields on the form being alternatives.