Re: [ jEdit-devel ] SUN Open Sources Forte and Net Beans!

[<md...@st...>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Kevin A. Burton wrote:
> SUN is going to OSS Forte and Net Beans.  They will have a more formal
> announcement on Monday but I have her word (and Brian Behlendorf's)
> that this will meet the OSS definition.

does that mean NOT SCSL? that would indeed be pretty cool.

> This is HUGE! and good news for all of us.  It would be a Good Thing
> to start thinking about how we should merge jEdit and NetBeans.  IMO I
> think it will be a really good match.  jEdit has a rock solid core but
> NetBeans has better IDE features.  We could blend the two and get a
> best of bread.  The only drawback I can see would be integration time
> and also the license change.  However I don't think GPL would be
> necessary here because if it is a good license it shouldn't matter.  
> That and the blend would be awesome.

sounds good as long as jEdit itself stays GPL'd. i seriously doubt that
Sun will put the code under a GPL compatible license, but it would be cool
enough for us to be able to redistribute NetBeans along with an LGPL'd
jEdit plugin to bind it in place. however, i think i'll wait for a formal
announcement before i start being less skeptical (it is Sun we're talking
about, after all).

here's hoping it all works out.

-md

p.s. stop me if i'm wrong, but wasn't there talk of jEdit's syntax and
textarea packages going into NetBeans at some point early last year? i
seem to remember some commericial offering aside from Intland's
SourceExplorer being interested in jEdit.