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StefanandClaude Sonnet 5 c730ef6049 Pin vendored TinyMCE at 6.8.6 (ADR 0013)
6.8.6 is the last MIT-licensed release; 7.0+ requires a commercial
license. Documents the constraint and syncs it across CLAUDE.md,
CODEX.md, and copilot-instructions.md per the instruction-sync rule.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-09 11:22:37 +02:00

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---
status: Accepted
date: 2026-09-09
applyTo:
- "Fuchs/wwwroot/lib/tinymce/**"
- "Fuchs/Scripts/tinymce/**"
supersededBy: ""
---
# 0013 — TinyMCE pinned to 6.8.6
## Context
TinyMCE releases from 7.0 onward are licensed under a proprietary/commercial
license (with a source-available "open core" carve-out that no longer covers
the full feature set previously used). TinyMCE 6.8.6 is the last release
published under the plain MIT license. The active app vendors TinyMCE
directly under `Fuchs/wwwroot/lib/tinymce/` (currently 6.8.6) rather than via
a package manager that enforces license terms automatically. A second,
older vendor drop lives at `Fuchs/Scripts/tinymce/` (currently 6.3.1) used
only by the legacy `Intranet_Legacy` VB.NET app — it is not required to
match the active app's version, only to stay under the same ceiling.
## Decision
TinyMCE must never be upgraded beyond **6.8.6**, in either vendored copy.
Any change that touches `Fuchs/wwwroot/lib/tinymce/` must keep `version` in
its `package.json` at `6.8.6` or lower. Do not pull in a newer TinyMCE
release, plugin, or skin — including via `npm`/`bower`/`composer` metadata
files bundled in the vendor folder — even to pick up a bug fix or new
plugin.
## Consequences
- Security/bug fixes for TinyMCE past 6.8.6 will not be available; any such
issue must be worked around locally (patch the vendored copy) rather than
by upgrading.
- New TinyMCE features/plugins released in 7.x+ are off-limits unless the
project separately decides to accept the commercial license (a decision
that would supersede this one).
- The two vendored copies do not need to share the same version, but neither
may exceed 6.8.6.
## Alternatives considered
- **Upgrade to latest TinyMCE and accept the commercial license terms** —
rejected: no budget/approval for a commercial license, and the project has
no other proprietary runtime dependencies of this kind.
- **Switch to a different MIT-licensed rich text editor** — rejected for now
as out of scope; would require rewriting the existing draft-editing
integration (see `Fuchs/Docs/Concepts/live-draft-editing.md`). Can be
revisited later.