[TYPO3-50-general] FLOW3 now LGPL licensed

[Martin Kutschker]

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> Karsten Dambekalns schrieb:
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> Just wanted to make sure this doesn't go by unnoticed: FLOW3 and it's
>> direct dependencies (PHP6, PHPCR, TYPO3CR) are now licensed under LGPL
>> v3 or later.
>>
> 
> does that mean that using extJS is no problem with this license?

extJS is GPLv3 so no problem here.

> What is if third party tool is used using GPL2 (like v4-extension
> phpmyadmin)

Have a look at the (L)GPL-FAQ. No (L)GPLv2only will work with any
(L)GPLv3 code.

extJS comes into TYPO3 4.x with the trick that a) it is GPLv2 or later
and b) extJS has a FLOSS exemption for non-GPLv3 software.

Masi