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My latest thought about ExtJS going GPL. Although ExtJS is GPLv3 and the developers claim (falsely) that your backend needs to be GPL too when generating code that contains ExtJS, for internal/intranet applications you still can use ExtJS as you’re not distributing ExtJS.
When people don’t understand GPL and LGPL - or - ExtJS is history
12 Comments Published April 22nd, 2008 in AJAX, GPL, LGPLThe people behind ExtJS are funny. First they have changed their license to the LGPL, without understanding it in any way, now they’ve changed it to the GPL without understanding it in any way. They claim that server side code which creates HTML pages which contain ExtJS must be GPL, wuahahaha.
I’ve been running LGPL […]
REST: Lean JSON and XML from the same code
5 Comments Published April 4th, 2008 in AJAX, Beautiful Java, JSON, Java, Javascript, REST, XMLGenerating JSON and XML with the same code is difficult. One can create the semantically richer XML and convert it to JSON, but JSON notations for XML like Badgerfish look quite ugly to JSON advocates.
The problem at the core is that XML is typed whereas JSON is not. Every node in XML needs a […]
