License History
YUI-Ext was available under the BSD license. In April 2008 the open source license associated with Ext was changed. In version 2.0.2, the authors stated that Ext was available under an LGPL-style license as long as you "plan to use Ext in a personal, educational or non-profit manner" or "in an open source project that precludes using non-open source software" or "are using Ext in a commercial application that is not a software development library or toolkit". This was no longer the case with Ext 2.1. Some people claimed that the license conditions as the authors described it stood while others claimed that clause 7 of the LGPL-style license enabled the software to be used by all regardless of Ext's conditions. The Ext authors claim that section 7 of the LGPL as it is worded did not apply to "conditions" which their license required before distribution under the LGPL was permitted as opposed to "additional restrictions" which section 7 allowed a distributor to remove.
On 20 April 2008, Ext 2.1 was released under a new dual license structure which allowed the options of the full GPL 3.0 license or a commercial license.
The change in license over time, from a permissive open source license to a restrictive dual license, caused controversy in the Ext user community.
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