ADRA wrote: >> NetBeans is GPL + ClassPathException. You can build over the Platform, >> or the IDE, adding your own modules, and make people pay for them, and >> even not releasing the sources of your stuff. It's just like the >> OpenJDK. There's a plenty of commercial, non FLOSS applications >> developed on the Platform. >> > Anything developed that 'links' with a GPL can arguably be considered > a derivative product of it. So, if you build a plug-in on top of a GPL > program, your plug-in is implicitly GPL as well. That only applies to > making programs FOR NetBeans, not making programs ON NetBeans. The > output of GPL applications are not in themselves restricted by > license. But the thing I don't know is that if the NetBeans > development API's were released as an open specification (to be > implemented by any compliant IDE for instance) then you could write > plug-ins since the plug-in could function without using GPL'd NetBeans > code. > The classpathexception is rather clear on this. Compiling against NetBeans libraries is not restricted by GPL in this case. Recompiling/rebuilding existing portions of NetBeans is.
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