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PySimpleGUI is now closed-source (github.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 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 22 points 11 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.

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