Ole-Martin M�rk wrote: > "Daniel Veditz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ole-Martin M�rk wrote: >>> Can I distribute the nbantext.jar that is generated during the build >>> and the openide.jar from the netbeans distribution? >>> If so, what must I do? >> >>I'm not sure you'll get useful or authoritative answers about netbeans here. > > It's under Sun public license. On netbeans.org they refer to this group for > licensing questions because Sun's license is pretty much the same as > Mozilla's..
I'd say "yes you can distribute" since that's the point of an open source license, but what you have to do varies depending on the license and the situation. Assuming you've made no source code changes and further assuming the netbeans license is EXACTLY like the MPL in this regard it sounds like you could distribute your nbantext.jar by meeting some simple notification requirements that should be spelled out in the license. If you've made changes then you'd have to publish the source code to those changes in addition. Licenses like the MPL primarily relate to source code. If openide.jar is a binary you get from Sun rather than build yourself it could well be under different license terms. I'm sorry for the vague answer, but the question was also pretty vague. The whole point of the license is to spell out "what must I do"--it's impossible to accurately condense it or it would have been shorter to start with. If you have questions about specific parts of the license that's a little easier to answer. -Dan Veditz
