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It seems as it does not end.
Reading a comment from John Resig, the (or one of the geniuses, sorry if there are more :-) genius behind jQuery, a library which was for some time a basis for ExtJs (beside YUI), irritated me a lot.

We (the jQuery project) worked hard with them to try and fix […]

Sorry, this would better go to twitter - but I’m not twittering.
Another thought. And not because I want to bash ExtJS, but because I’ve been interested into the GPL, open source licensing and the implications for over a decade.
IANAL. The best situation for the company behind ExtJS would be if extension developers stay […]

Reading the excellent analysis on A little Madness about the GPL and ExtJS issue, there is more cluelessness in a comment by Jack Slocum the ExtJS lead. He claims that others
“[…] wrap it up and sell it as their own. […] With no mention of us at all.”
Nope, that would be illegal in most countries. […]

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.
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The 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 […]

Alex wrote in his latest Java 7 Roundup about my idea of a @license and Paul’s @copyright addendum. I wrote about the idea here.

@License(name = “Apache”,version = “2.0″)
@Copyright(owner = “Stephan Schmidt”)
public class Example {
public void doWhatever() { … }
}

In the comments of that post Paul Hammant mentioned a @copyright annotation, […]

Is your Open Source project correctly licensed? When I was thinking about my open source projects I remember I was shocked. They probably haven’t been correctly licensed (they were in the end) What license you can use depends on the third party open source projects you use. But not only that, it depends on what […]