[Users] ExtJS Licensing Changes

[geographika]

Hi all,

As some of you may be aware Sencha have drastically changed their 
licensing costs for the ExtJS framework. The option to buy a license 
without support has gone, and now licenses must be bought in packs of 5. 
The costs of using ExtJS have therefore risen from ~300 EUR to ~3,000 
EUR. There has not been a very happy reaction from single developers: 
http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?292734-Is-Sencha-screwing-single-developers/

I currently have a very large ExtJS 3.x codebase using GeoExt and was 
going to move to version 4 (and GeoExt 2), however costs and now lack of 
trust in what Sencha may do next are worrying. We used to get a license 
for the support releases at 3.x - but I suppose technically we could use 
the GPL version of ExtJS as all source code is delivered to the client 
and it is an internal application.

GeoExt has some very nice functionality on which to build as does ExtJS, 
but it would be nice to be able to use it for commercial projects too. 
Angular seems to be expanding hugely, but the breaking changes in v2 
seem to have annoyed all the devs working with that. Dojo seems the most 
similar to ExtJs, and has the benefit of sharing development on ESRI 
systems, but doesn't seem as slick as ExtJS and would require huge 
amounts of time to port applications to.

Does anyone have their own strategies for the future of their own 
codebases? Will the licensing changes have an impact of GeoExt development?

Regards,

Seth

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