License Change?

[VKPS]

When having a look at the new site, I'm a bit surprised to see a change in the terms of the license. ExtJS 2.01 and lower were LGPL licensed, but 2.1 is GPL licensed. I'm sure you know that this is a BIG change. Is this intentional or an oversight? I really wouldn't want to see a fork in the community caused by this change of license.

[brian.moeskau]

This was an intentional change. Details can be found here: http://extjs.com/company/dual.php

We'll have more to say about this soon...

[perler]

If I will not pay and publish I'm forced to use 2.02 which is still LGPL right?

[erictang]

I think it's one big bad news for us. ExtJS is great work,but i think this kind of license will stop up 90% of people to share this great work, and lost more and more ExtJS developer.

sorry for my pool english.

[esoteric]

Unfortunately I would have to agree. I have been using ExtJS for a long time now. this switch in license in my opinion is unfortunate, while I don't forsee myself not using this toolkit/library at this time, I still strongly disagree with this decision mainly because the GPL is VIRAL, if you use ExtJS in your app now, you must also license your app as GPL, which I dislike very much.

I would still like to applaud Jack and the rest on their work and thank you for your continued work, but in my opinion this is not a good decision.

[vmorale4]

if you use ExtJS in your app now, you must also license your app as GPL, which I dislike very much.

..Or you could buy a developer license

[LGPLman]

This was an intentional change. Details can be found here: http://extjs.com/company/dual.php

We'll have more to say about this soon...

Hey Brian we are waiting since 2 days !

You have more to say, so do it now !

My advice for every Extjs users : LEAVE THIS PROJECT, it is a developper-trap, consider dojo, jQuery, YUI, etc. those are REAL OPEN SOURCE projects, not cash-machines, without any bastard license changing as often as the weather.

P.S. i am nauseated by this behaviour, as i was an real Ext-evangelist until monday morning, i tried to convince everybody in my company since one year to use this library...

[dynqnet]

My advice for every Extjs users : LEAVE THIS PROJECT, it is a developper-trap, consider dojo, jQuery, YUI, etc. those are REAL OPEN SOURCE projects, not cash-machines, without any bastard license changing as often as the weather.

I don't mind at all paying for this great framework, however if these recent changes affect my own rights on my work too much i'm not going to get a license.. I've been spending like a month now learning how to setup apps with ExtJS, and im totally in love with the features.

Also the active community was a big plus, but im worried the community is getting a big smack in the face right now, exactly for one of the reasons you mention..

Edit:

Jack is replying right now, wonder what he has to say about this issue..

[rednix]

Despite the fact that the framework is worth the money - it's definitely a major change in the license policy. You are no longer encouraged to buy a commercial license but forced if you want to keep your application commercial or just closed source.
Again - I'm not telling it's not worth buying it. But this fact should be made absolutely clear to the user community so everyone upgrading from 2.0 branch are aware of the consequences.

[vmorale4]

But this fact should be made absolutely clear to the user community so everyone upgrading from 2.0 branch are aware of the consequences.

Agreed!

Somebody else mentioned earlier that a Licensing FAQ would be very helpful (forum sticky/ext main page or both)