I wonder how many CKEditor5 users are in violation of (your interpretation) of the GPL?
We began using CKEditor as part of our forum posting form in early 2018. At the time, it was triple licensed, including under the LGPL. This suited our needs and I never followed the inner development workings of CKEditor since, just updated versions along the way as time went on. This week when I read about the inclusion of a Powered by CKeditor attribution that would start to show in v38, I decided to take a look at the commercial license. The pricing is absolutely insane for someone in my position, using CKEditor in a niche forum, they want 15K/euros a year. Further, the sales and "compliance" folks start drilling in about making sure we comply with the GPL. I've been doing web programming for 28 years and have never once heard someone claim that referencing a GPL JS library on your website means you need to release all of your website under the GPL license, but that appears to be what the CKSource team's position is on this. I still couldn't believe that this was really their take, so I looked through the issues and found this seemingly solidified here: https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/991#issuecomment-389812759 Quoting @fredck: > ..."there is a clear intention, and I confirm it, of allowing CKEditor under the GPL license only within software that is also GPL, no matter which way such software is made available for end users." So it seems CKSource's opinion is that by licensing it under the GPL, any website that so much as `<script>` includes the cked
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I wonder how many CKEditor5 users are in violation of (your interpretation) of the GPL?
We began using CKEditor as part of our forum posting form in early 2018. At the time, it was triple licensed, including under the LGPL. This suited our needs and I never followed the inner development workings of CKEditor since, just updated versions along the way as time went on. This week when I read about the inclusion of a Powered by CKeditor attribution that would start to show in v38, I decided to take a look at the commercial license. The pricing is absolutely insane for someone in my position, using CKEditor in a niche forum, they want 15K/euros a year. Further, the sales and "compliance" folks start drilling in about making sure we comply with the GPL. I've been doing web programming for 28 years and have never once heard someone claim that referencing a GPL JS library on your website means you need to release all of your website under the GPL license, but that appears to be what the CKSource team's position is on this. I still couldn't believe that this was really their take, so I looked through the issues and found this seemingly solidified here: https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/991#issuecomment-389812759 Quoting @fredck: > ..."there is a clear intention, and I confirm it, of allowing CKEditor under the GPL license only within software that is also GPL, no matter which way such software is made available for end users." So it seems CKSource's opinion is that by licensing it under the GPL, any website that so much as `<script>` includes the cked
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