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On the Riverbank License FAQ for PyQt5 it specifies that PyQt5 is under the license GPL. I'm not sure whether I should use GPLv1, GPLv2 or GPLv3.

What license should I choose and it is MIT compatible? Would I be able to put my application under the MIT license even though PyQt5 uses GPL?

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According to the documentation, PyQt5 is licensed under GPLv3. https://pyqt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/introduction.html#license

Your application would also have to be licensed as GPLv3 (or a compatible license).

As I understand it you would not be able to use MIT license for your application. There is a certain asymmetry here, a GPL application may use an MIT library, but not the other way around.

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  • Thanks! That really cleared some things up, I didn't want my project to be under the wrong license as that could cause quite the trouble. – Tearzz Oct 3 '18 at 22:19
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    The application can be licensed under the MIT license, but you can't take advantage of the extra permissions that the MIT gives you as long as the application depends on GPL-licensed code. – Bart van Ingen Schenau Oct 4 '18 at 6:05

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