> 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. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
