[Psc] Sencha offer to solve GPL issue for GeoExt 3

[Christian Mayer]

Hi everyone,

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].
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:

>>
1.       _The GeoExt Solution: _If GeoExt buys our Pro Edition (5-pack)
and stay current on maintenance/support we will provide the following
conditions/restrictions:

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.

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.

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

Eyeworkers can then provide the commercial version of the mapping
application as part of your overall Ext JS application/service for your
customers.
<<

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.

But maybe you have other opinions and thus I do not want to deny you
this information.

Regards,
Chris

[1] http://www.geoext.org/pipermail/dev/2015-June/001286.html




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