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.