Hi Markus,
On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:08:54AM +0200, Markus Gesmann wrote:
> We opted for RJSONIO at the time as we believed it is has the better
> performance.
>
> If would start the project today, we would probably go with Jeroen Ooms’
> jsonlite package, which is also MIT, as RJSONIO and rjson don’t appear to be
> actively developed anymore.
Jsonlite would be fine as well.
> Perhaps, you can encourage the other package developers to change their
> license.
What package developers do you mean? Do you think RJSONIO should change
to pure MIT? That's probably not possible since they are using code
from the (famous) non-evil author who has fought endless flamewars to
defend his crazy idea (as if evil people would care for a license ...
:-().
Do you think there is much effort to port googleVis to jsonlite?
Kind regards
Andreas.
> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 12:31:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Markus,
> >
> > I intend to package googleVis for Debian. I realised that it depends
> > from RJSONIO which is using code with MIT-no-evil license - which is
> > actually evil since it is non-free.
> >
> > Could googleVis be adapted to use r-cran-rjson instead? It is
> > mentioned here in the Debian bug tracking system:
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712159#32
> >
> > This would be really helpful
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
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