With a release later this year (2009), Jaspersoft is planning to change the licenses on the open source projects as follows:

JasperReports from LGPL version 2 to LGPL version 3
iReport from GPL version 2 to GPL version 3
JasperServer and JasperAnalysis from GPL version 2 to Affero GPL version 3

The Jaspersoft projects use components with a variety [...]

Today, Sun has announced the availability of NetBeans v6.5, the latest installment of its very popular Java development environment. The NetBeans community is enormous, reaching more than 600,000 members and spanning 130 countries. Along with the many advancements that Sun will describe in v6.5 (and there are many), Jaspersoft is announcing [...]

After only three months from the release of the first preview version, the plugin of iReport for NetBeans has became the most popular plugin available through the NetBeans plugin portal. This is really exciting and confirms the high level of interest the NetBeans community has in this project.
The plugin has been rated by 14 people. [...]

After months of hard work, the first version of iReport for NetBeans (iReport NB) is finally out!
It is not a final release, several things are still missing, but it is a pretty good one. We choose d the version number 0.9.0 to underline the fact that it is still a working in progress [...]