Do you mean that 1.x is under the bastardized LGPL ?  I had thought it  
was just plain LGPL...  What a disappointment...

On Mar 31, 2008, at 3:07 PM, David Turner 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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