Netbeans 6.9.1 ?
Hello!
First, excuse my bad english ;-)
I would install Netbeans 6.9.1 in french from the Netbeans "official" website.
But I have a question: is that my Trisquel "Slaine" will remain completely free by installing this "official" version of Netbeans ??
I would like to specify that I will install openjdk and not sun-jdk (of course).
Thank you for your answer(s) and good night !
PS: congratulations for this new Trisquel release :-)
I am a translator!
Freedom of software is defined through the license. If the software you wish to install is licensed under the GNU GPL, or some compatible license, (here an incomplete list) it is free software.
I've looked it up, and yep, Netbeans is duallicensed and one of them is the GNU GPL, the other is compatible. Looks 100% free to me.
Edit: woops, there are actually a number of components in Netbeans that are licensed differently, sometimes under the SLA (don't really know what that is) and it says "You may only use the Software in binary form and only in
conjunction with NetBeans."
Here's a list of which component has what license. It's a mess. SLA looks like the only non-free license there...
I am a member!
A SLA is a "software license agreement" which is basically the same thing as an "end user license agreement" (i.e. proprietary).
Last I checked the non-free components in netbeans were optional.
Thank you for your answers!
I wonder if it would be possible to put in deposits only free plugins for Netbeans to avoid installing proprietary modules?!
In my opinion, it should not be easily feasible since the installation of plugins is maintained by NetBeans itself.
I do not know... It's just a suggestion to put in parallel with the work done on Firefox/a-browser to ban the installation of non-free plugins...