Re: Bug#550031: ITP: libjs-extjs -- a cross-browser JavaScript library

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

Marcus Better wrote:
> This is non-free. Please keep it out of Debian.
> 
> Surely you are aware of the huge controversy around Ext JS licensing.
> There is no need to repeat that story here, let me just point to this page:
>   http://www.extjs.com/company/dual.php
> 
> Here they make claims that directly contravene parts of GPL-3:
> 
> "If you derive a commercial advantage by having a closed source
> solution, you must purchase an appropriate number of commercial licenses
> from Ext."
> 
> And this:
> 
> "If you wish to use the open source license of an Ext product, you must
> contribute all your source code to the open source community and you
> must give them the right to share it with everyone too."
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Marcus

Hell, I missed it. This doesn't appear at all on the license.txt. Do you
think I could still package it for the non-free archive?

Thomas