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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Bart,<br>
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People have mentioned pooling licenses on the thread in the ExtJS
forums, but there is no official response. I can't imagine they'd
allow it though. <br>
Maybe this is something Boundless could become involved in?
Perhaps you could arrange a commercial GeoExt license (for
individual developers!), which would both save small GIS
consultancies from huge licensing costs and fund future GeoExt
development?<br>
It seems like Sencha is trying to hike up proifts in order for a
sell-out so it is hard to tell what the future holds for ExtJS. <br>
People have mentioned qooxdoo a few times (which has a LGPL
license): <a
href="http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/widgetbrowser/">http://demo.qooxdoo.org/current/widgetbrowser/</a><br>
Also <a href="http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/">http://demos.telerik.com/kendo-ui/</a>
which has a commercial license (although Telerik just got bought
out so that may also bring licensing changes. <br>
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Regards,<br>
<br>
Seth<br>
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On 12/11/2014 08:41, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:<br>
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<div>this is news to me. Just thinking out loud, do the terms
allow 5 individual developers to team up to get a single
license? Or can the license be bought by a company which then
relicenses it on a per developer basis to subcontractors?<br>
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<div>On 11 Nov 2014, at 09:18, geographika <<a
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<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi all,<br>
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As some of you may be aware Sencha have drastically
changed their licensing costs for the ExtJS framework. The
option to buy a license without support has gone, and now
licenses must be bought in packs of 5. The costs of using
ExtJS have therefore risen from ~300 EUR to ~3,000 EUR.
There has not been a very happy reaction from single
developers: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?292734-Is-Sencha-screwing-single-developers/">http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?292734-Is-Sencha-screwing-single-developers/</a><br>
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I currently have a very large ExtJS 3.x codebase using
GeoExt and was going to move to version 4 (and GeoExt 2),
however costs and now lack of trust in what Sencha may do
next are worrying. We used to get a license for the
support releases at 3.x - but I suppose technically we
could use the GPL version of ExtJS as all source code is
delivered to the client and it is an internal application.
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GeoExt has some very nice functionality on which to build
as does ExtJS, but it would be nice to be able to use it
for commercial projects too. Angular seems to be expanding
hugely, but the breaking changes in v2 seem to have
annoyed all the devs working with that. Dojo seems the
most similar to ExtJs, and has the benefit of sharing
development on ESRI systems, but doesn't seem as slick as
ExtJS and would require huge amounts of time to port
applications to. <br>
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Does anyone have their own strategies for the future of
their own codebases? Will the licensing changes have an
impact of GeoExt development?<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Seth<br>
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