jqGrid - Free License

Question

All, I was actively using jqGrid in the past few years, now I need it back to work on a requirement. Looks like the name has been changed to Gurrido JQGrid and seems to be a

Answer 1

One can't change the license of previously published versions of jqGrid. So if you loaded once the code which have "Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses" comment inside then you can use it under the licenses.

All versions of jqGrid till (inclusive) 4.7 can be used for free under MIT or GPLv2 licenses. You can download it from github (see the license statement here).

The version 4.7.1 published short time after publishing of 4.7 have new license. Starting with 4.7.1 it's better to use another name: "Guriddo jqGrid JS" for the product. You can read here more about the price and the conditions of Guriddo jqGrid JS.

MIT and GPLv2 licenses allows to modify the code holding the reference to the author of the previous version used as basis. So I started new fork of jqGrid based on jqGrid 4.7 under the name free jqGrid. One can download it from github here. The readme and the wiki provide additional information about new features which I implemented. I published the first release 4.8 of free jqGrid at 4 Mar 2015. I provided the version over NuGet, npm and bower additionally to the way to download the sources directly from GitHub. I posted the code additionally to different CDNs (see the wiki article) to simplify the usage.

I plan to publish very soon free jqGrid 4.9. I'll post the beta version in next days, but you can use the version from githib at any time. It includes always jquery.jqgrid.min.js, jquery.jqgrid.src.js and jquery.jqgrid.min.map generated from the current code.

So you can use free jqGrid for free like the name already says. I ask only to report the bugs as github issue or to post it on the stackoverflow. Please use both tabs "jqgrid" and "free-jqgrid" if you post the question about free jqGrid on the stackoverflow.

By the way the wiki is opened for writing. So if somebody want to improve the text of existing articles of to post new one then you are welcome!