Package: lintian Version: 2.5.17 The lintian tag license-problem-json-evil, added per BTS 692616, should have its description modified ... because those files have been relicensed under free terms! So now, people should be told to get new version of the cson files, without the problematic prohibition on evil.
See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2013/09/msg00051.html for details and (presumably) discussion, but the important information from upstream is included below. If someone who has edit rights would care to edit the immutable page https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil appropriately, that would be great. It might also be a good idea for someone to scan back for bugs tagged json-evil-license, open or closed or archived, and alert the relevant maintainers of this change. --Barak. Barak A. Pearlmutter Hamilton Institute & Dept Comp Sci, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~barak/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 14:47:13 +0200 Message-ID: <cakd4nahbw3hvaxt_rkbpilx2mm7gzdj4kdr75gqfmh0y9qx...@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: JSON_parser() license question From: Stephan Beal <[email protected]> To: Barak Pearlmutter <[email protected]>, B Harder <[email protected]>, Richard Hipp <[email protected]> Hello, fellow developers, i am happy to announce that the author of cson's underlying JSON parser has given me permission to strip the "do no evil" clause for the copy used with Fossil. That will happen immediately, simplifying Fossil's integration into Debian :). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jean Gressmann <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:36 PM Subject: Re: JSON_parser() license question To: Stephan Beal <[email protected]> Cc: Jean Gressmann <[email protected]> Hi Stephan, long time no hear ;) You have my permission to strip out the "use for good, not evil' part for you use in Fossil SCM. Keep up the good work! Cheers, Jean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
