Re: [DotGNU]IDE proposal - Eclipse/SharpDevelop announcement

[David Sugar]

How much does eclipse really differ from netbeans?  I think the latter 
is also on a strange public license of some sort.

Seth Johnson wrote:

> Mike Krüger wrote:
>
> > I've looked at Eclipse and it falls under the CPL (Common
> > Public License).
> > And this is as far as I remember this is a "free" license. (correct me, if
> > I'm wrong).
>
> > From http://www.fsf.org/licenses/license-list.html:
>
> Common Public License Version 0.5 
> This is a free software license but it is incompatible with
> the GPL. 
> The Common Public License is incompatible with the GPL
> because it has various specific requirements that are not in
> the GPL. 
>
> For example, it requires certain patent licenses be given
> that the GPL does not require. (We don't think those patent
> license requirements are inherently a bad idea, but
> nonetheless they are incompatible with the GNU GPL.)
>
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