[Users] ExtJS Licensing Changes

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hey Seth,

this is news to me. Just thinking out loud, do the terms allow 5 individual developers to team up to get a single license? Or can the license be bought by a company which then relicenses it on a per developer basis to subcontractors?

Best regards,
Bart

Bart van den Eijnden
Front End Software Engineer | Boundless
bartvde at boundlessgeo.com
1-877-673-6436
@boundlessgeo



On 11 Nov 2014, at 09:18, geographika <geographika at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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