Netbeans 6 Dual-Licensed Under GPLv2, CDDL 239
Lally Singh writes "Interested in the new Netbeans 6, but didn't trust Sun's (already OSI-approved) CDDL? Sun just Dual-Licensed it under the GPL (v2) with Classpath Exception. Keep your karmic license purity and mix in all the (now compatible) GPL code you want. If you've been using Eclipse, Netbeans 6 is really worth a look. Lean, well-featured, and fast."
Re:Dual license? (Score:3, Informative)
Err, nevermind, the answer's in TFA (people choose the license they want) :-/
Re:Dual license? (Score:5, Informative)
If you were to dual license your code under the GPL and BSD people who wanted to redistribute modified code could follow either one they wanted, with BSD being one of the avaible choices they could close it up a lot if they so desired.
Re:Dual license? (Score:4, Informative)
For example I can take some code I write and release it under GPL and my own for pay license. If someone pays for a copy they and I have to abide by my paid-license, if someone downloads it then they can do things with it as allowed by the GPL. This allows me to be flexible and support the needs of buisnesses (and pay my bills) while still supporting the community.
Re:Only matters for Netbeans mods and add-ons, rig (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Dual license? (Score:1, Informative)
GUI Builder (Score:4, Informative)
Still there is one thing where Netbeans beats every other Java IDE easily: The matisse GUI builder is really fun to work with! For Java there's nothing even close. And for that alone Netbeans has a very well founded raison d'être. If it's GPL now, lets wait and see how long it takes for Eclipse to absorb that great tool. There's already a commercial port for MyEclipse, but it's not free or usable on vanilla Eclipse, yet.
Re:Tried it (Score:1, Informative)
Oh well.
Re:Tried it (Score:3, Informative)
why?
Re:Dual license? (Score:4, Informative)
The way they do it for MySQL and others is when you get it, only one licence applies. You choose which one you want to apply, but the choice of the commercial licence means you have to give them money. They're just giving you the ability to sell a product and keep the source closed if you're willing to pay for it.
Re:Only matters for Netbeans mods and add-ons, rig (Score:4, Informative)
Re:In Iran (Score:4, Informative)
Sun's policy?
Sun is a US company and by US law, Sun is not allowed to export to restricted countries.
Re:differences? (Score:3, Informative)
They wouldn't even for a single license (Score:2, Informative)
license on that code) as long as that code doesn't have any restrictions which aren't
in the GPL. The "viral"ness of the GPL is that you can't redistribute it under any other
terms -- including if you make derivative works and distribute those.
The FSF also takes an expansive view toward derivative works of their own software, so
that a program linked with their code, but not otherwise including it, would create a new
work covered by the GPL. The non-GPLed component would still be non-GPL if distributed
by itself. This is why some of their software, like glibc, is under the LGPL.
Re:Tried it (Score:1, Informative)
JDK 6.0 update 1 and earlier versions don't have this problem.
here's the bug report for this:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6578753 [sun.com]
Re:GUI Builder (Score:2, Informative)
Re:differences? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Go Competition (Score:1, Informative)
Actually, I believe [esc]:x will jump ahead x lines from the current, however still very useful.
Re:Dual license? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Sun isn't committed to GPL (Score:2, Informative)
He had two moderations, one Troll and one Flamebait.
It's not surprising that a post filled with rhetoric and hyperbole gets those two mods.
He got moderated Informative for giving information about Windows Licensing in a topic about Windows Licensing. I can't see how anyone but a GNU zealot would find that offensive.
Speaking of Flamebait and Troll mods, don't be surprised if you get some too for the same reasons listed above.
Re:Tried it (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Tried it (Score:4, Informative)
Re:To quote John Carmack (Score:1, Informative)
new Netbeans 6 beta 2 has great Ruby support (Score:4, Informative)