Hey Seth, this is news to me. Just thinking out loud, do the terms allow 5 individual developers to team up to get a single license? Or can the license be bought by a company which then relicenses it on a per developer basis to subcontractors?
Best regards, Bart Bart van den Eijnden Front End Software Engineer | Boundless bart...@boundlessgeo.com 1-877-673-6436 @boundlessgeo On 11 Nov 2014, at 09:18, geographika <geograph...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > As some of you may be aware Sencha have drastically changed their licensing > costs for the ExtJS framework. The option to buy a license without support > has gone, and now licenses must be bought in packs of 5. The costs of using > ExtJS have therefore risen from ~300 EUR to ~3,000 EUR. There has not been a > very happy reaction from single developers: > http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?292734-Is-Sencha-screwing-single-developers/ > > I currently have a very large ExtJS 3.x codebase using GeoExt and was going > to move to version 4 (and GeoExt 2), however costs and now lack of trust in > what Sencha may do next are worrying. We used to get a license for the > support releases at 3.x - but I suppose technically we could use the GPL > version of ExtJS as all source code is delivered to the client and it is an > internal application. > > GeoExt has some very nice functionality on which to build as does ExtJS, but > it would be nice to be able to use it for commercial projects too. Angular > seems to be expanding hugely, but the breaking changes in v2 seem to have > annoyed all the devs working with that. Dojo seems the most similar to ExtJs, > and has the benefit of sharing development on ESRI systems, but doesn't seem > as slick as ExtJS and would require huge amounts of time to port applications > to. > > Does anyone have their own strategies for the future of their own codebases? > Will the licensing changes have an impact of GeoExt development? > > Regards, > > Seth > > -- > web: http://geographika.co.uk > twitter: @geographika > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@geoext.org > http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users
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