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

[Marc Jansen]

+1

thanks for taking this on.

On 20/04/16 15:35, Christian Mayer wrote:
> 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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>>>> Julien-Samuel Lacroix
>>>> T: +1 418-696-5056 #202
>>>> Mapgears
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