On 13 March 2012 18:32, Felix Meschberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Am 13.03.2012 um 02:52 schrieb Ian Boston: > >> Hi, >> I saw this on Twitter. >> https://twitter.com/#!/postwait/status/179292171533430785 >> >> >> see >> https://github.com/apache/sling/blob/trunk/bundles/commons/json/src/main/java/org/apache/sling/commons/json/JSONObject.java >> >> The license is MIT but contains an additional clause: >> >> "The software shall be used for good, not evil." >> >> Which is hard to comply with since there is no legal definition of >> "good" or "evil" or where the boundary is. > > It has been discussed on legal-discuss [1], [2] and there is even a > resolution on that particular library [3]. So we can assume this to be ok for > our purposes.
It might be worth re-taking the code from Adbera which, based on the information in the thread(s) came, from a version that did not contain the Good/Evil statement. WDYT? I am happy to do the leg work. I hear what was said by Jukka and others in [1], however it doesn't change the fact the license is a legal document and if you gave that license to many lawyers they will struggle to give you the all clear. IANAL, but dont want to have a conversation like that. Ian > > Regards > Felix > > [1] http://markmail.org/message/gglluph3ifuyqiwq > [2] http://markmail.org/message/rlhpmrkv24p5247m > [3] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#json
