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

[Christian Mayer]

Hi Julien,

thanks for providing this text block. Sounds good to me. The license change from
BSD to GPL has been made here [1]. The term "Commercial License" seems to be
correct as you can see here [2]. Maybe we include the link to Sencha's legal
page ([2]) as well to be clear.

So, for me the procedure of sending an email to the dev-list sounds to be a
reasonable next step.

Cheers,
Chris

[1] https://github.com/geoext/geoext3/pull/16
[2] https://www.sencha.com/legal/



> Julien-Samuel Lacroix <jlacroix at mapgears.com> hat am 20. April 2016 um 14:46
> geschrieben:
> 
> 
> I think the first step will be anounce our intention on the dev list and 
> get a written (by email) acceptance from all committers. Tentative email:
> 
> <text>
> Hello,
> 
> The GeoExt PSC has been actively discussing with Sencha about the ExtJS 
> licensing change that prevented us to use GeoExt with a commercial ExtJS 
> license. The change made in version X forced us to switch from a BSD 
> licence to GPL preventing GeoExt to be used with a Commercial ExtJS.
> 
> After several months we are really pleased to announced an agreement 
> from Sencha to Dual-Licence GeoExt 3. Users of GeoExt 3 will be able to 
> get it under GPLv3 or, if they own an ExtJS commercial licence, use it 
> under a BSD licence.
> 
> To be able to proceed with this licence change we require a written 
> agreement from every code contributors:
> 
>   - marcjansen
>   - KaiVolland
>   - bentrm
>   - weskamm
>   - chrismayer
>   - bartvde
>   - jgrocha
>   - patryksosinski
>   - dnlkoch
> 
> Best regards,
> The GeoExt PSC team
> 
> </text>
> 
> I did not find the right term for "ExtJS commercial licence". I'm sure 
> it has a name, but could not find it.
> 
> Please let me know what you think, feel free to correct and send it if 
> you agree.
> 
> Julien
> 
> On 16-04-20 06:02 AM, Christian Mayer wrote:
> >
> > 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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