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Author Topic: Licence Change: GPLv3 to "FreeWare"  (Read 10828 times)
mncarbone
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« on: November 16, 2015, 06:32:08 AM »

Hello:

I think maybe you make a mistake, but it is in the limit of illegality!!

In my last unanswered topic (http://www.jeasyui.com/forum/index.php?topic=5208.0) I talked you about your error in publishing under GPL v3 some obfuscated Javascript code.

Now I see you decide to change the licence of 1.4.4 version to some "FreWare licence". This is much more wrong, its a dangerous desition, because you may have legal issues. Please read: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#CanDeveloperThirdParty

You can not "close" a GPLv3 code, even if you write it and you still show us some code. ¿What about community contibutions? ¿What about all the four freedoms (view, use, change and distribute)?

You take the worst way. You must change your "bussiness mode". Look again at MySql licences or similar. You don't need to close the source!!!

I hope you understand this. I know that people of FSF is following this case. And I'm seriously thiking in fork 'easyiu 1.4.3', because I have a lot of GPL projects using it.

Thanks for your work! Good luck!
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« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2016, 04:45:04 AM »

Totally agree with you and for myself has decided to abandon the use of EasyUI 1.4.4 in my Open Source projects
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« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2016, 05:10:20 AM »

Totally agree with you and for myself has decided to abandon the use of EasyUI 1.4.4 in my Open Source projects


wow we have the same action..
some of my open source app have to migrate to other ui because of this..
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« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2016, 09:18:06 AM »

Thanks for your replies! T think I'm not alone!
I'm working now in a "comunity fork" of EasyUI 1.4.3. (the GPL v3 "source")
The first step is to try to "unobfuscripting" some plugins. It's a hard work, but I think I can do it (at least partially).
When I finished this step, i will publish it in github. But before I need a new name!
I will need your help in this project...
Thanks.

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