Archive for the 'LGPL' Category
Another ExtJS GPL thought - Should extensions switch to the GPL?
11 Comments Published April 26th, 2008 in Dual License, ExtJS, GPL, LGPLSorry, 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 […]
More cluelessness from ExtJS lead developer Jack on the GPL issue
12 Comments Published April 24th, 2008 in Copyright, ExtJS, GPL, Java, LGPLReading 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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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 […]
