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Why change licenses?

April 26, 2017licenses

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Why change licenses?

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• The GPL v2.0 license will provide an additional option to vendors that are unable to work with NetBeans under the CDDL license. • Adding GPLv2 as a license option will make NetBeans even more Linux friendly. • Adding GPLv2 with Classpath exception to NetBeans will keep product portfolios and bundles consistent. Sun open sourced its JDK implementation under GPLv2 and the GlassFish project is dual-licensed under CDDL and GPLv2 with Classpath exception. Both the CDDL and the GPLv2 are OSI-approved licenses that meet the requirements of the Open Source Definition.