Re: powerEXT - Clarifications from the author

2010/1/20 Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>

Well, your interpretation is incongruent with what ExtJS is saying on their
Web site, but what do I care? I think you're pretty safe to use it as you
like - not because your interpretation of the license or law is correct, but
because it takes about $100K to prosecute contested copyright infringement
cases in the U.S. So unless they have deep pockets, and they believe you're
able to pay their attorney's fees, they won't come after you.

Nathan.

I wouldn't advise breaking license restrictions in the belief that the

project can't pay to protect themselves. Open source licenses are defended
by the Software Freedom Law Center for one, an organisation that will fight
to uphold the open source project's copyright in court if necessary, at no
cost to the project.

Regards,

Juliette