Paul Krill
Editor at Large

Sun adds GPL to NetBeans

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Oct 26, 20071 min

The NetBeans community, featuring Sun Microsystems, this week released the latest build of NetBeans 6.0 Beta 2, which is now being licensed either by the GNU General Public License version 2 with ClassPath exception or by Sun’s Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) License.

GPL is new for the NetBeans open source development platform.

“The community believes that releasing NetBeans under the GPL license will help align NetBeans with the Linux community and major open source projects,” according to a Sun blog post.

Version 6.0 is to add features such as support for JRuby, a version of the Ruby language that runs on the Java virtual machine. JavaScript support is boosted as well. Sun has targeted late-2007 for the general release of NetBeans 6.0.

Also available is the NetBeans plug-in for DTrace, for running DTrace scripts. DTrace provides a dynamic tracing framework for Solaris, to gauge behavior of the operating system and user programs.

Paul Krill

Paul Krill is editor at large at InfoWorld. Paul has been covering computer technology as a news and feature reporter for more than 35 years, including 30 years at InfoWorld. He has specialized in coverage of software development tools and technologies since the 1990s, and he continues to lead InfoWorld’s news coverage of software development platforms including Java and .NET and programming languages including JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, and Go. Long trusted as a reporter who prioritizes accuracy, integrity, and the best interests of readers, Paul is sought out by technology companies and industry organizations who want to reach InfoWorld’s audience of software developers and other information technology professionals. Paul has won a “Best Technology News Coverage” award from IDG.

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