On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:07 PM, David Turner <
novalis@openplans.org> wrote:
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 15:07 -0400, David Turner wrote:
> The plain LGPL has no field-of-use restriction. The restriction added
> in the Ext license present a few major problems:
>
> 1. The new license is no longer compatible with the plain GPL. The
> plain GPL (any version) does not permit additional restrictions on field
> of use.
>
> 2. The new license would not be considered to be a free software license
> by FSF, nor an open source license by OSI. I can tell you this with
> absolute certainty, since one of my duties when I worked for FSF was
> evaluating licenses.
>
> 3. The new license is confusing. It says it's LGPL, but then gives up
> on many of the most important characteristics of the LGPL.
>
> 4. I have no idea what a "developer toolkit" is.
>
> Unfortunately, under these circumstances, I cannot recommend the use of
> current versions of Ext. I will be recommending that we peg ourselves
> to the latest version of Ext which was available under the plain LGPL.
> This is what
[sorry, accidentally hit send early].
This is what we appear to be using now.
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