Agree no need for GeoExt to change license.
Sencha link to the list of compatible licenses from their licensing
page: https://www.sencha.com/legal/open-source-faq/
In the section "What licenses are compatible with GPL v3?" they show BSD
is compatible with GPLv3.
Regards,
Seth
On 15/07/2015 15:30, Cornelius Weiss wrote:
Hi Seth,
thanks for pointing this out. GeoExt is not affected by the change.
There is no need to switch the GeoExt License, the BSD License is
perfectly compatible with GPL code:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html
It's up to the users of ExtJS / GeoExt to cope with the new ExtJS
Licensing and to meet the License conditions.
regards
Cornelius
Am 13.07.2015 17:49:54, schrieb geographika:
Hi all,
From my point of view the main issue is with the ExtJS licensing
rather than GeoExt. Now an ExtJS license is > $5,000 as they have
to be bought in packs of 5 then our systems are all now released
as GPL.
As I understand it, as long as the client (e.g. a government
department) is given the full source code, which is what most
require as part of a contract anyway, then this means the terms of
the GPL are met. I presume that "user" is the organisation rather
than a government employee that may occasional access the system
in a browser?
Has anyone had any professional legal advice about ExtJS/GeoExt/GPL?
When an ExtJS license was $300 it was easier to simply buy the
commercial license and not worry about the above.
I guess there is no way a company like Boundless could buy license
packs of 5 and sell them on to individual developers?
Regards,
Seth
On 28/06/2015 11:53, Gary White wrote:
It's so sad that Sencha had to screw up a good thing. Their
ridiculous licensing changes/costs mean that I probably won't
be using the version(s) that it covers or any product that is
linked to them (including GeoExt 3+). I still can't figure
out how they decided that the changes are a good idea. I
guess that they're just willing to lose a significant segment
of their customers in order to get those big bulk licensing
payments. SMDH
Regardless, I've really enjoyed using GeoExt and I want to
thank all those who've contributed to this great project.
Gary
On 06/26/15, Bart van den Eijnden<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello everyone,
this is a heads-up to the community, and mostly that part of
the community that is unable to deal with GPL applications.
For Ext JS 6 (which is the version of Ext were targeting with
GeoExt 3), Sencha has changed their model and doesnt offer the
open source exception anymore.
This means there are 2 options basically:
1) GeoExt 3 will be GPL only (not BSD anymore)
2) all the developers and contributors to GeoExt 3 need to get
a Sencha commercial license for Ext JS (for prices see here:
https://www.sencha.com/store/extjs/), and GeoExt 3 would need
to be licensed with a dual license model (commercial, GPL) as well
There are currently no funds available for option 2), hence
option 1) is very likely.
If this is problematic for you or your company, please speak
up now in case you have any funding available to influence
this important decision.
TIA.
Best regards,
Bart
Bart van den Eijnden
Front End Software Engineer | Boundless <http://boundlessgeo.com/>
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
1-877-673-6436 <http://tel:917>
@boundlessgeo <http://twitter.com/boundlessgeo/>
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