It seems like, even if you decide your FOSS use falls under hobbyist (and it's not clear if that's necessarily valid), if anyone wants to pull your project and run it, they'll need to set up their own simplegui account and get a key etc...
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7. If I ship a product that uses PySimpleGUI do I have to pay royalties to PySimpleGUI?
No. To ship a product, commercial users embed Distribution Keys (at no cost) into each application shipped.
Hobbyist Users may share their projects. Each recipient will be able to run the project during a trial period. After the trial period, the recipient must subscribe to PySimpleGUI (at no cost) to obtain their own Developer Key.
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from: https://pysimplegui.com/faq
It seems like, at the very least, it would be worth establishing a fork of the LGPL version under a new name that we can put on PyPi to keep current projects working and installable with a different pip install for the formerly pysimplegui...
It seems like otherwise anything distributed currently that's FOSS that uses it will have to start paying a subscription or something?
It also seems like if I pull a FOSS project off a github repo that uses pysimplegui now, when I install dependencies it will install simplegui 5 and thus I'll have to get a subscription...
This sucks... Found this yesterday and couldn't find anyone talking about it / the implications yet...
Has anyone figured out how their license is supposed to work for FOSS projects?
It's clear that if you just using personally it's free, or selling stuff then pay subscription, but I couldn't find good info on their site / license page about FOSS projects etc.
>" 7. If I ship a product that uses PySimpleGUI do I have to pay royalties to PySimpleGUI? No. To ship a product, commercial users embed Distribution Keys (at no cost) into each application shipped.
Hobbyist Users may share their projects. Each recipient will be able to run the project during a trial period. After the trial period, the recipient must subscribe to PySimpleGUI (at no cost) to obtain their own Developer Key. " from: https://pysimplegui.com/faq