On Mar 31, 2008, at 3:30 PM, David Turner wrote:
I don't know when the changeover happened, since they appear to not have
an open svn repository (yuck). Some of the files we have say "see
http://extjs.com/licensing for license". Some say "LGPL 2.1", with no
mention of additional restrictions. Googling reveals various versions
under the LGPL, but since everyone seems to use the mangled (compressed)
version, rather than the source, it's hard to tell anything. Do we know
where we can find the source to what we have?
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 15:15 -0400, Douglas Mayle wrote:
Do you mean that 1.x is under the bastardized LGPL ? I had thought it
was just plain LGPL... What a disappointment...
On Mar 31, 2008, at 3:07 PM, David Turner wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 15:07 -0400, David Turner wrote:
The plain LGPL has no field-of-use restriction. The restriction
added
in the Ext license present a few major problems:
1. The new license is no longer compatible with the plain GPL. The
plain GPL (any version) does not permit additional restrictions on
field
of use.
2. The new license would not be considered to be a free software
license
by FSF, nor an open source license by OSI. I can tell you this with
absolute certainty, since one of my duties when I worked for FSF was
evaluating licenses.
3. The new license is confusing. It says it's LGPL, but then gives
up
on many of the most important characteristics of the LGPL.
4. I have no idea what a "developer toolkit" is.
Unfortunately, under these circumstances, I cannot recommend the
use of
current versions of Ext. I will be recommending that we peg
ourselves
to the latest version of Ext which was available under the plain
LGPL.
This is what
[sorry, accidentally hit send early].
This is what we appear to be using now.
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