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[[[wikipedia:Open source|Open source]] project gives you many freedoms with respect to the program. The most essential is a right to fork. E.g. change, re-use and distribute your own modifications to original program. Open source movement as a whole is in opposition against closed source - e.g. programs distributed with some kind of restrictions on end users or re-distributors.

There seem to be two main streams inside Open source:

  1. GPL like one - e.g. you have right to fork and your work needs to give right to fork to anyone else
  2. Apache, BSD, etc. - you have right to fork and you can do what you want with the result

NetBeans project falls into the second category and it helps the wide spread re-use of NetBeans Platform. On the other hand, GPL licensing also has its benefits as project Netbinox shows.

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