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. Software Development