From: Kevin A. B. <bu...@re...> - 2000-03-11 19:41:22
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md...@st... wrote: > > 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. Yes... NOT SCSL! :) > > 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). From what I was told I extrapolated that Stallman was overviewing the license for compatibility with the GPL. This is why they didn't release a license I think. Their official stance is that it is being reviewed and that the reviewer doesn't have time right now. +1. I want everything to be a plugin. I am probably going to be working here... making sure the architecture is good. As long as everything is OSS I really don't care that it isn't GPL. > 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. > > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > jEdit Developers' List > jEd...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/jedit-devel -- Kevin A Burton (bu...@ap...) http://relativity.yi.org Message to SUN: "Open Source Java!" "For evil to win is for good men to do nothing." |