On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 08:15 +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
However, it's pretty clear that their licensing terms are that you
cannot use it with a non-free server back-end, which effectively means it's not really GPLv3'd.
I couldn't find this interpretation. Can you give us some specifics of what you mean here?
What that page appears to say is that if you build a web application with ExtJS and distribute it for others to use then it must be under the GPL v3 or a similar "open source" license.
If you build an application and put it on your own site, i.e. just *use* it you wouldn't incur such obligation as far as I can see - since they're not using the Affero GPL.
I don't see where they consider use on a Web page as "distribution". However, if that was their intention they should probably have used the Affero GPL instead.
br Carsten