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Hi everyone,<br>
<br>
as you all know we had to switch the license of GeoExt 3 from BSD to
GPLv3 because Sencha removed the FLOSS exception for ExtJS 6 which
allowed us to use BSD although we build GeoExt upon a GPL product.
GPL is maybe not the best solution for GeoExt and thus we (mainly
Bart) had mail contact to Sencha if there is a possibility to run
GeoExt under BSD without any success. The topic has salso been
discussed on the dev-list [1]. <br>
Meanwhile the CEO of the German Sencha partner company "eyeworkers",
which I know more or less well, had the possibility to talk to the
CEO of Sencha and explained him the situation. This is what Sencha
offers the GeoExt community:<br>
<br>
>><br>
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span
style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><u><span lang="EN-US">The GeoExt Solution:
</span>
</u><span lang="EN-US">If GeoExt buys our Pro Edition (5-pack) and
stay current on maintenance/support we will provide the following
conditions/restrictions:<o:p></o:p></span>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span
lang="EN-US">Up to 25 GeoExt developers can use the license to
develop a commercial version of the mapping product. They cannot
provide the licenses to anyone outside of their organization.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span
lang="EN-US">The license is restricted to just this mapping
application. If they want to provide another commercial
application they need to buy another license of this type.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:72.0pt"><span
lang="EN-US">We need to have a call with GeoExt on this
licensing so everyone understands the benefits and obligations
and to also make sure we establish a line of communications to
help them<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<span lang="EN-US">Eyeworkers can then provide the commercial
version of the mapping application as part of your overall Ext JS
application/service for your customers.<br>
<<<br>
<br>
My personal opinion is that this is not a suitable option for
GeoExt to build upon a commercial license or even make a closed
source pendant of GeoExt, which can be used in commercial
projects.<br>
<br>
But maybe you have other opinions and thus I do not want to deny
you this information.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Chris<br>
</span><br>
[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.geoext.org/pipermail/dev/2015-June/001286.html">http://www.geoext.org/pipermail/dev/2015-June/001286.html</a><br>
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