Grails plugin discontinued?

[bmelloni]

I was looking at the list of AJAX plugins for grails and it said that the EXT plugin has been discontinued due to licensing issues.

a) What was the licensing issue? I know that Ext uses the GPL3 license but I don't understand the implications. I assume they must have been serious if the plugin authors decided to abandon it.

b) Do I need to worry about the licensing issue? I know that for those writing commercial software they can get a 'for pay' non-GPL license and be free of the issue. My question here is for when I write software for a website - it would be a fatal security flaw if I was forced to publish the source code.

c) Was the licensing issue resolved and have the plugin authors resumed support?

Thanks

[zigi]

hi there,

the grails-ext plugin has not been discontinued ( http://grails.org/Ext+Plugin ). it is a general integration of ext-js as a javascript library for grails. you can install it using "grails install-plugin ext". my plugin (grails-ext-ui) has been discontinued for now due to the licensing problem. the plugin was discontinued, because the licensing change disqualified ext for the commercial project i was developing at that time where the grails plugin was a coproduct. the aim of that plugin was very different to a general javascript library integration, though. it was like dynamic scaffolding for domain classes using a rich ext interface - rather a product than a toolkit.

I intend to resume the development on the plugin anytime soon.