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<h1>The NetBeans Sources</h1>
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<p>The NetBeans source code is available under the
<a href="../../cddl-gplv2.html">Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) v1.0 and the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2</a>.
The source code is available in a Mercurial repository. All
development of NetBeans happens using the Mercurial server on this site,
and development proposals and decisions happen on the
<a href="../lists/index.html">public mailing lists</a>.
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<p>You can get to the sources in several ways.
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<li>Through Mercurial - see the <a href="hg.html">Mercurial Overview page</a> for
details;</li>
<li>Download an archived snapshot (ZIP) from the <a
href="../../downloads/index.html">downloads page</a>;</li>
<li><a href="http://hg.netbeans.org/main/file/">Browse them online</a></li>
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<p>If you are interested in making a build from the sources, see the
<a href="http://wiki.netbeans.org/WorkingWithNetBeansSources">Working with the NetBeans Sources</a> pages.</p>
<p>For legacy products and historical reasons, you can also
<a href="https://netbeans.org/download/source_browse.html">browse the old CVS repository</a>.</p>
<h2>So what exactly is here?</h2>
<p>What is available here is the entire source tree and history of
the NetBeans IDE. Generally, there is a "stable" branch and a
"development branch." The development
branch is where ongoing development happens - it will be more or less
stable depending on what point
in the release cycle it is.</p>
<p>For a a description of the physical organization
of the sources in the Mercurial repository, see <a href="structure.html">Mercurial
Repositories</a>.</p>
<h2>Contributing</h2>
See the <a href="../contribute/index.html">getting involved page</a>.
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