Netbeans now dual-licensed: GPL & CDDL
As of Monday's release of NetBeans 6 beta 2, in addition to the CDDL, the Java-based tool set is now also available under GPLv2 with the Classpath exception. The target had been to add GPL by FCS but thanks to some over achieving legal folks the team made it early.
The goal of the dual licensing is simple -- make NetBeans more friendly
to the GNU/Linux world as well as making it an option for those who
were unable to use it under the CDDL.
The idea of adding GPL was original brought up for comment to the community back in mid August by NetBeans community manager (and all around good guy) Bruno Souza. Accompanying the proposal was this FAQ.
Two months later it has become a reality, very cool!Pau for now...
Barton, The NetBeans plug-in module for DTrace is also available. The NetBeans DTrace plug-in module is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for running DTrace scripts. The DTrace plug-in module works with Sun Studio 12 IDE, NetBeans IDE 5.5.1 and NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2. Check it out!
Posted by Terri Molini on October 27, 2007 at 03:22 PM CDT #
Cool! thanks for the heads up
Posted by Barton on October 29, 2007 at 02:07 PM CDT #