Josh is correct that there is some wiggle room on this specific issue (json.org 
license). The wiggle room is that existing projects have a grace period for 
removing the json.org dependency, with the deadline I think being June 2017.

Since Gossip has yet to make a release, I would lean toward removing it. It 
would be a good demonstration to the IPMC of the podling taking efforts to 
comply with license policy.

> On Jan 3, 2017, at 4:54 PM, Gary Dusbabek <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> -1 due to a dependency on a project with a category-X license [1].
>> 
> 
> Wait. So you're saying that a transitive category-X licensed dependency is
> verboten even when we do not include the binary or the source?
> 

The litmus test I use is “Can the software be used without the category-X 
licensed dependency?”

If the answer is “no” then it is verboten. 

-Taylor

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