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

Christian Mayer chris at meggsimum.de
Wed Apr 20 12:02:55 CEST 2016


Hi all,

any ideas or plans how we proceed on this?

Thanks and cheers,
Chris


> Julien-Samuel Lacroix <jlacroix at mapgears.com> hat am 6. April 2016 um 14:50
> geschrieben:
> 
> 
> 
> >   * 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)
> 
> Thank you very much for this! I'm +1 big time on dual licensing.
> 
> >   * Decide which other license suits our need. Since Apache was brought
> >     up by Sencha, I'd be willing to take that one
> 
> I'm fine either way.
> 
> >   * 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?
> 
> I like the idea of adding a LICENCE-FAQ.md. I think I would also provide 
> 2 download links:
>    - GeoExt FOSS version: click here
>    - If you own an ExtJS Commercial Licence: Click here
>    - See FAQ for details
> 
> >   * Do we need to get the appreciation of all actual committers again?
> 
> I think that for any license change we do need a confirmation of all 
> actual contributor since they technically "own" the code.
> 
> Julien
> 
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