On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 20:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Nils Philippsen wrote:
>
> --- 8< --- ExtJS v2.0.1 ------
>
http://extjs.com/license
>
>
> License of CSS and Graphics ("Assets")
>
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> The Assets distributed with Ext are licensed for use ONLY with their
> associated Ext JavaScript component ("Component"). Use of the Assets in
> any way that does not also include the Component is prohibited without
> explicit permission from Ext JS, LLC. Deriving images and CSS from the
> Assets in an effort to bypass this license is also prohibited.
>
IMO, this is completely unacceptable unless we have a free "assets" set
that can replace this.
Hmm, I wonder why shipping uqm-content is acceptable then,
see /usr/share/doc/uqm-0.6.2:
--- 8< ---
The content -- voiceovers, dialogue, graphics, and music -- are
copyright (C) 1992, 1993, 2002 Toys for Bob, Inc. or their
respective creators. The content may be used freely under the
terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
2.5 license (included below, and also available at
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/). The content
may also be copied freely as part of a distribution of The Ur-Quan
Masters.
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I agree that CC-BY-NC-SA is slightly less restrictive than the extjs
assets license above, but where do we (in our licensing guidelines) make
that distinction?
Nils
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