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

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hi,

Opened #154
You've seens it already! :)

Julien

On 16-04-25 04:48 AM, Marc Jansen wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> is somebody actually doing sth. here?
>
> I think it might be easier to just open an issue / PR where committers
> need to agree on the license change.
>
> We need someone to take care of this so we can settle this issue, IMO.
>
> Cheers, Marc
>
>
>
> On 20/04/16 15:51, Marc Jansen wrote:
>> +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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