how about this one? https://sourceforge.net/projects/json-lib/
-Elias Garrett Rooney wrote: > On 7/10/06, Garrett Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7/10/06, Elias Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi Everyone, >> > >> > I'm almost ready to check in a JSONWriter into the extensions folder of >> > Abdera. Is the JSON license ok? Can I add it as a download in the >> > build.xml file? >> > >> > http://www.json.org/license.html >> >> Amusingly enough, I'm not entirely sure... >> >> The bit about "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." seems >> contradictory to the ASF's general "do what you want with it, just >> give us credit" stance on this sort of thing... >> >> Will look into it. > > I asked around, and general consensus seems to be that the weird > clause about good and evil probably renders the license > non-open-source (it violates point 6 of the open source definition > (http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php), and thus we can't use it. > > On the bright side, at least JSON isn't all that complex a format, so > implementing another set of classes to deal with it probably isn't all > that hard, even if another one doesn't already exist someplace... > > There are some comments from the author here: > > http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2005/12/16/json > > that imply that he has been willing to do one-of licenses that remove > that limitation. You might try getting in touch with him and asking > if he'd be willing to do so for the ASF. As it stands though, I don't > think we can use it. This is why nonstandard licenses suck... > > -garrett >
