On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 11:24:11 +0100 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 11:08:32PM +0100, Francesco Poli (wintermute) wrote: > > Hello Javier, > > it seems to me [1] that storymaps includes non-free files > > (src/org/json/*) released under the JSON license [2]. > > Yes, it does. > > (B) replace src/org/json/* files with a DFSG-free and GPL-compatible > > equivalent, if any is available (tools/jsmin.py from libv8, which > > is under a GPL-compatible 3-clause-BSD license, was mentioned [3] > > during the debian-legal discussion, but maybe it's a completely > > different thing...) > > Searching a little bit I've found Gson, which is a JSON implementation for > Java using the Apache license. It is available here: > http://code.google.com/p/google-gson/
Good, the Apache License v2 is compatible with the GNU GPL v3 (though not with the GNU GPL v2). Google Gson should be fine for storymaps, as far as license compatibility is concerned. > > Doing a cursory review Gson provides a JSON array implementation in Java, > which is what Storymaps actually uses. So it could be an alternative for > replacing Douglas' JSON. > > I will try to test replacing it and see where that takes me. Great, good luck with this attempt! :-) [...] > > (D) move the package to the non-free archive > > This is probably what I will do in the short-term, however, as modifying and > testing the code might take some time (if it works at all) On a second thought, are src/org/json/* files linked with the GPL-licensed parts of the package? I am asking because, if this is the case, I am afraid that even moving the package to the non-free archive would not be enough to (temporarily) fix the issue, since the package would be legally undistributable... -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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