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Thank you JetBrains!

The IzPack project has been given an Open Source License for JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA. It should be noted that JetBrains does not impose any evil restriction on the F/OSS projects that they support. They don't require advertisement from our part, nor that they ask to favor IDEA over Eclipse or Netbeans. Some people might object that IDEA is not F/OSS. Indeed it is not, but a small company like JetBrains could hardly make a living if they opened the code of IDEA. It is much easier for IBM or Sun to do it for their IDEs...

We have decided to apply for a license because IDEA has many unique features (like a very intelligent context-driven completion, or advanced refactoring and static code analysis), and choice is always good. We will not favor IDEA over Eclipse over Netbeans. We simply expect each developer to choose the one that (s)he likes the best, and IDEA is now expanding the choice of IDE to the benefit of the project!

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