Comments on PHP Guy: Been doing some heavy ExtJS development

Donald, doing some catching up and I see you reall...

2010-11-15T09:25:52.903-05:00

Donald, doing some catching up and I see you really are getting heavy into ExtJS. It is still on my list for "someday", it looks like once I get to it I'll need a brain dump from you.

Hi, Iam also a PHP developer, Currently making a p...

2010-10-12T05:59:50.040-04:00

Hi, Iam also a PHP developer, Currently making a project on CI and EXTJS. diong it only on my free time, my question is can I used the EXTJS for free in my webapplication not distribute it, but provide a service using the application with fee on my server, do I need to still buy license cause in a way I did not modify it, I did not destribute it, and its not a framework over EXTJS or it is not a library to be sold?

Thanks

Donald, I see that you are a PHP guy. First: I...

2010-05-10T17:49:38.350-04:00

Donald,

I see that you are a PHP guy. First: I'm not a recruiter. I work for Pentaho, a Central Florida Open Source Business Intelligence company. We have an interest in expanding our web team. Ping me if you're interested or know someone that may be. Skills should be around web development specializing in LAMP and use of PHP that is already in place for our web properties. I can provide a full desc. if needed.

When using something for profit my definition of c...

2010-02-18T09:27:30.347-05:00

When using something for profit my definition of contributing back is $$$ whether it be for a license, or a donation to the opensource project itself. So it the Ext licensing doesnt bother me one bit, hey without the comercial entity I dont think we would have as great of a product as we do. Again just my opinion.

I think with libraries, the whole "contributi...

2010-02-18T00:02:58.901-05:00

I think with libraries, the whole "contributing back" thing isn't as much of a problem; I've seen companies contribute back with even liberally licensed libraries, whether it be through bug reports or actual widgets. And a lot of times, companies don't even modify the libraries in any way, so there isn't much to give back.

Software on the other hand, I think it's more of a problem, since companies could just take something, rebrand it, and make it better then the original. They wouldn't contribute back the changes because then their free competitor would benefit from it.

So in that sense I think that libraries should be more liberally licensed (with the LGPL or more liberal), while software should be less liberally licensed (with something like the GPL).

Yes in fact my company has purchased a license... ...

2010-02-17T23:29:09.671-05:00

Yes in fact my company has purchased a license... I really believe that if your using something for profit you should have to give back...but if you are trulely developing something opensource then you are giving back. Ext doesn't require you to purchase a license if you are developing an opensource project

ExtJs is nice, the widgets work really well, espec...

2010-02-17T23:24:03.322-05:00

ExtJs is nice, the widgets work really well, especially the grid. The only problem IMO is the licensing isn't very good. You may want to take a look at Dojo, which is more liberally licensed, and has pretty much the same functionality. (ExtJs has some ridiculous thing where you need to buy a license in order to use it in commercial works, as I'm sure you've seen).