[Users] I wonder Geoext license

[Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)]

Hi Chris,

thanks for the clarification, I thought as much but I was slightly 
misled by the following sentence which talks explicitly about the server 
of the customer:

According to the FSF, since the
Javascript code is delivered from the server of the customer to the web browser
user, it is conveyed, and therefore subject to the terms of the GPLv3

Best regards,
Bart

Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 08:04:51PM +0200, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
>   
>> Hey Christopher,
>>
>> so what you are saying means using the ExtJS files from cachefly will  
>> exempt your application from being GPL v3?
>>     
>
> I don't know what Cachefly is, or how it relates to ExtJS. If the files from
> Cachefly are licensed under the GPLv3, then the answer is no. If, for some
> reason, they are under a different license, then the answer might be yes.
> However, Ext does not provide a way to the public to use the library as a
> library under anything other than the GPLv3. (The commercial license clearly
> states "You can do pretty much anything except let other people use this ExtJS
> license for ExtJS purposes only.")
>
> (Okay, Cachefly is just a CDN.)
>
> Because your application is using the GPLv3 code, it really doesn't matter where
> they sit: in the same awy that building a seperate DLL doesn't allow you to 
> avoid GPL. If Ext were LGPL, that would be reasonable: using cachefly would be a
> fast way to say "nope, we're really not changing the code, so we don't have to
> give anything back."  However, under GPL, if you touch the underlying code through
> any programmatic interface, it's linking, and your application is then subject
> to GPLv3.
>
> Regards,
>   


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Bart van den Eijnden
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