Could we take a concise and defined stand for this kind of question.
While I think there's no reason to have this question closed, I don't have an extremely strong opinion on the matter.
But I do have a strong opinion that this question is not a good precedent for anything. In other words, whether or not the question stays closed is fine, but we should definitely not take a stand about anything else, based on it. Especially after the edit ("Well at least people should be able to take a look at it") this question is kind of a mess.
Furthermore, consider my and Thomas W.'s comments, from before that edit:
@user2366975 I actually think this is a perfectly good question; I can't see any good reason to downvote it, though downvotes aren't usually a big deal. I'm more troubled by the idea that any license-related question is automatically requesting actual legal advice. In any case, you could improve this question by editing it to provide more details about your goals and about how you plan to license the software you intend to sell. Will your software be proprietary? Have you already written it to use PyQt? Are you considering alternatives?
— Eliah Kagan
@user2366975 I agree with Eliah, I downvoted your question because I don't believe there's sufficient information here to answer it. If you provide more information as an edit to your question, I will remove the downvote, but not until there's enough information to be at least somewhat answerable. As it stands there's not enough information and it's just a general "legal" question...
— Thomas W.
Thomas W. and I actually don't agree on some things about this question. For example, he thinks it should be closed and I think it should be open. What I think we may agree about is that the problems with the question are due to the way it was asked, not to the fundamental nature of what was asked.
The question's recent edit ("The program should be open source... at least people should be able to take a look...") attempts to clarify things but actually makes them murkier. It doesn't attempt to address most of the questions asked in comments, and it seems to confuse "open source" with "users can read the source code."
So, no, we should not take a stand for this "kind of question." This question is not a suitable example to work with to make any general policy about anything. That moderators seem unclear about whether or not the question is on-topic is further suggestive evidence that this question should not be the impetus for any stand on anything.
