Bruno Souza, NetBeans community manager, has announced that Sun is considering releasing NetBeans 6.0 under GPLv2 with the Classpath exception, in addition to the current CDDL license.

Matt Thompson, Sun's senior director of technology outreach and open source programs office, told ZDNet Asia that Java will be governed under GPL version 2 (GPLv2), with Classpath Exception.

Offered under the GPLv2 (GNU General Public License) with Classpath Exception license, LWUIT provides a UI library for developing mobile applications to run across Java ME devices, according to ...