Ext GWT or GXT as it's called, is GPL v3. Therefore, if you're using GXT version 1.3, then you are using GPL v3 code and you cannot run your web application without releasing the source code to it, or getting a proprietary license. Otherwise you would be violating the GPL license and are opening yourself up to law suits. LGPL, which is the license that Ext and GXT used to be under, is a less restrictive license.
I suggest you consult a lawyer to get full understanding of how the license impacts your application before you release it. P.S. You would have been much better off without GXT or GWT-ext, both are poorly put together libraries. You could have achieved similar effects with regular GWT and some nice CSS. Regards, -- Arthur Kalmenson On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:58 AM, glidealong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > for our application i had tried gwt-ext first bcuz of the licensing > issues and the maturity, at that point gwtext was running 2.0.1 and > gxt was getting it's 1.0 release. so lot's of api's and > functionalities were missing in gxt compared to gxt. > > but sooner than later i found out it was really thorny to debug and > modify the given sample code to get something meaningful to our > context. currently we are happily using gxt1.3 and we have been > succesfull in acheiving most of the things we wanted to achieve. > > But the licensing issues is the one thing that i am not yet sure > about, whether it's gonna backfire sometime in future. But i beleive > it all depends on the way the owners of the gxt want to take it, cuz > form what i know lgpl is much riskier than gpl. > > Anyway i feel gxt guys won't kill their product by doing something > silly on the license issues, that said, i meant it all depnds on the > fairness of the guys who did all these. > > Hope it helps, > Hafiz > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
