[Geoprisma-dev] ExtJS bug fixes now costs money

[Christoph Baudson (Wheregroup)]

Yves Moisan schrieb:
>> jQuery itself is a very small library, but there is also jQuery UI [1], 
>> which contains a lot of widget plugins. But still, ExtJS contains way 
>> more functionality.
>>     
>
> Hi Christoph,
>
> I learned meanwhile that bug fix releases of ExtJS were only for
> subscribers and that "other" (non privileged I guess we could call them)
> users only get a release every 6 months or so.
>   
>> However you can find jQuery plugins for almost all scenarios imaginable, 
>> but it would be nice to have them bundled (and quality tested), like in 
>> ExtJS.
>>
>> Mapbender is based on jQuery (since version 2.5), and from version 2.7 
>> onwards, we will use the jQuery UI library as well.
>>
>> Licensing was a main issue why we chose jQuery over ExtJS, besides the 
>> fact that jQuery only costs a few kB.
>>     
>
> MapBender is GPL right ?  I think this was Josh's main concern about
> ExtJS (the licensing options), but I may be wrong.
>   

Mapbender now has a dual license [1], GPL and Simplified BSD.

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome, I'm looking forward to 
collaborating :-)

Christoph

[1] 
http://trac.osgeo.org/mapbender/browser/trunk/mapbender/license/license.txt?format=raw

> Vielen danke,
>
> Yves
>
>   
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Christoph
>>
>> [1] http://jqueryui.com/
>>
>>     
>>> Daniel
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