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A curated list of awesome WYSIWYG Editors.
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Froala as a paid and proprietary plugin #37

Closed 7Ds7 closed 4 years ago

7Ds7 commented 4 years ago

Froala is a paid editor

In the very end of their repository readme file they mention it

Not just that but it is somehow sneaky model a-la pay-to-win kind of game.

Using the package either from npm or otherwise, a developer can set it up without any warning whatsoever, only then, when it runs from a live domain (ex: not localhost or 127.0.0.1) the editor gets a flashing red banner stating that you are running one unlicensed copy, also the wysywig output content gets one extra paragraph stating saying "Powered by Froala Editor" with a link to their website.

Furhtermore on every render the editor also makes a call to Froala webservers "probably" to check the license and control who is not running a licensed copy.

In order to prevent developers waisting their time setting it up locally only to notice that it is a paid editor when it goes live (guess to whom that happened to...) a label was added (as other awesome lists have) for the editor stating that it is not free and proprietary and for the framework wrappers added the non-free as they are dependent of a paid editor but excluded the proprietary label,

7Ds7 commented 4 years ago

Also added another commit as Froala is a standalone editor (at least as of the current date)

JefMari commented 4 years ago

Hi @7Ds7 ~!

Thank you for your heads up about this!

I will merge this for now. But I will make a separate update to address this one.

Thank you~!