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PySimpleGUI is now closed-source (github.com)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/python
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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How is this trial enforced?

Since it's now closed source and they distribute what is possibly/probably/presumably a binary blob, the same way all the others are enforced. With some kind of DRM date checking whatever.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Does pip really allow binary blobs? That effectively makes it zero security.

[–] etrotta 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To be fair it has some valid use cases, take ruff for example.

But pip/pypi does not have any proper security at all, and just blocking binary blobs wouldn't make a difference when you can freely execute any python code during installation - Much like downloading an executable from any site online, you are expected to make sure you can trust whoever uploaded what you are downloading. You could say the same about other sites like GitHub too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

There is a fair difference still between source available and binary blob. The blob has essentially no chance of ever being audited.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Take a look at the Source Distribution files: https://pypi.org/project/PySimpleGUI/#files

As far as I can see, it's still all just Python.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

binary blobs aren't really a security hole , since AFAIK the pypi team don't check every package for malicious code before they get shown publicly . it just shifts the trust from pypi to the library authors

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sure, and it's really nice for big compiled projects to not have to compile that on every update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They injected some binary code to make a code object (and in doing so inject some obfuscation).. if someone wants to violate the new license, they can easily work around it via installing through pip, commenting out that license check... Not that I endorse library license violations.

I put up packages on pypi with the last LGPL code versions for my own usage. I don't plan on updating them much, but they work for me.

PySimpleGUI-4-foss And psgtray-foss.