[Psc] Finally: New licensing option for GeoExt3 (ツ)

[Christian Mayer]

Hi Marc, hi all,

this sounds good to me.  I also understood this in way that this is like the
prior FLOSS exception. Nervermind, the most important is we have suitable
license options. So I am fine with a dual license model.

I agree with Marc that it is very important that we cleary state what this dual
license means and what you are allowed / not allowed to do.

If BSD is also OK for them I would also prefer it but I am not against Apache or
similar.

Thanks Marc for your ongoing negotiation with Sencha!

Cheers,
Chris 

> Marc Jansen <jansen at terrestris.de> hat am 6. April 2016 um 10:56 geschrieben:
> 
> 
> Hey Bart,
> 
> 
> On 06/04/16 10:54, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
> > This is weird, since what they are suggesting is actually what the 
> > purpose was of their open source exemption.
> 
> Yes, that is how I understood that exception as well. Who cares, we have 
> git it back.
> 
> >
> > Why not keep BSD then, like we have already in older versions?
> 
> Would work for me as well.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bart
> >
> >> On 06 Apr 2016, at 10:51, Marc Jansen <jansen at terrestris.de 
> >> <mailto:jansen at terrestris.de>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi PSC-members,
> >>
> >> As I have discussed with you 
> >> (http://www.geoext.org/pipermail/psc/2016-January/000194.html), I 
> >> went on to negotiate our licensing options with the Sencha people.
> >>
> >> Here is a short recap of the current situation:
> >>
> >>   * Since the Exception for OSS is no longer existing, GeoExt
> >>     switched to be licensed as GPL software
> >>     (https://github.com/geoext/geoext3/pull/16)
> >>   * This might be problematic when people want to use GeoExt code
> >>     with their correctly bought licensed software
> >>
> >> After some back and forth a Sencha official proposed the following:
> >>
> >>     > So if geoExt does not include our code, you could dual license
> >>     it GPLv3 and Apache - the GPLv3 version to go with Ext JS GPLv3
> >>     and the Apache version to go with Ext JS commercial for closed
> >>     source uses.  You'd probably want to make this clear to your
> >>     users so they get the right version and don't wind up with GPL
> >>     issues. Apache could be Apache, MIT, BSD, free commercial, or
> >>     anything that allows you to combine it with other work and go
> >>     closed source (technically, going closed source is redistributing
> >>     under a commercial license).
> >>
> >> Effectively this would mean that we would dual license GeoExt, and 
> >> the license of the actually used ExtJS determines which license from 
> >> GeoExt actually applies to your code.
> >>
> >> I personally feel this is a wonderful option we get back from Sencha 
> >> here and I am very grateful that they offer us this in my 
> >> communication with them.
> >>
> >> Here is a rough outline what we could do starting from now:
> >>
> >>   * Decide on whether we want to be dual licensed as outlined above
> >>     (A simple +1, 0, -1 vote of the PSC in response to this mail
> >>     would be enough, I guess)
> >>   * Decide which other license suits our need. Since Apache was
> >>     brought up by Sencha, I'd be willing to take that one
> >>   * Discuss the wording of how we document the licensing everywhere
> >>     (Sencha and I have talked this through but in the end we decide
> >>     and simply make it totally cklear to our users)
> >>   * Provide PR that actually does the change
> >>       o We should make it absolutely clear what the options are (see
> >>         above)
> >>       o We should document this at several places
> >>           + LICENSE.md at the repository root
> >>           + LICENSE-FAQ.md at the repository root
> >>           + every source-file header
> >>           + on the homepage
> >>           + some other place?
> >>   * Do we need to get the appreciation of all actual committers again?
> >>
> >> What are your thoughts?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Marc
> >>
> >> PS: Once this is settled, I really want to have a v3.0.0 released. 
> >> And then switch to a release often-strategy. But thats stuff for 
> >> another day.
> >>
> >>
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