[TYPO3-50-general] ExtJs License

[ries van Twisk]

On Oct 13, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Sebastian Wojtowicz wrote:

> Sorry for continued asking, I really hope my upcoming "Open Source
> Software Engineering"-seminar will shed some light on my
> mambojumbo-understanding of all this licensing stuff.
>
> ries van Twisk schrieb:
>> On Oct 13, 2008, at 9:51 AM, Xavier Perseguers wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hey, I just read that for commercial use of ExtJs you have to pay
>>>> 289 $.
>>>>
>>>> Well, I know that Flow3 is OpenSource
>>>> As will be Typo3v5
>>>>
>>>> But what if I use the Flow3 Framework to develop a commercial page,
>>>> which then uses the ExtJS package of Flow3.
>>>> Do I have to pay 289 $ to the ExtJs guys than ?
>>>>
>>> I would say yes!
>>>
>>
>> As long as you give the source with your project then you fall in the
>> GPL category.
>>
>> So yes, you can develop a commercial page and sell it to your
>> customers. But if they ask
>> for the source, you have to give it to them...
>>
> Well this I kind of already knew. But what if I make a page with Flow3
> in its bones that's supposed to make profit for me ? (just by being a
> usefull application, not a homepage that I sell)
> F.e. a shop or a job-agency.
> This is an commercial way of using flow3, right? And by that also a
> commercial use of ExtJs (cause I think I'd like to use that), right?
> Does this mean I have to offer my customers / my clients the source


You cannot mix FLOW3's GPL license with a commercial license of extJS,
so the license of extJS used with FLOW3 will always be a GPL license.

It still does mean you can create a commercial application and sell it  
to your customers!, But only as GPL not as any other license.
Your client can do whatever he feels with your commercial application,  
sell it to other customers, publish it on a website (modified or not)  
but your client
HAS to give the source aswell to all people he sells it to.

For you there is no other option then to give the source up-on request  
to your customers because FLOW3 is GPL to start off with.

Ries

PS 1: I am not a lawyer or anything...
PS 2: a BSD license would have been better under the above situation,  
but FLOW3 wanted to be compatible with TYPO3's license model so  
extensions could be re-used. (correct me if I am wrong here please).

>
> code, too ?
>> Ries
>>
>>
>>> -- 
>>>










			regards, Ries van Twisk


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