Hi all

Over at legal-discuss there is a discussion of whether the json.org library 
with the amended MIT license (remember the „use for good not evil“ clause ?) 
should be „banned“ by reconsidering the „A“ rating of this license (assuming 
the clause is just a joke) and turning it into an „X“ rating (don’t use based 
on Debian’s and other’s considerations:

https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
https://www.cnet.com/news/dont-be-evil-google-spurns-no-evil-software/

It is not decided yet. But we should probably be prepared.

Plenty of alternatives exist: Jackson, GSon, and IMHO quite interesting 
javax.json (https://json-processing-spec.java.net/) with a RI from glassfish 
(https://jsonp.java.net/).

Assuming we would have to change things, I suggest we reimplement the API of 
our refactoring of the json.org library with javax.json. We could use the RI 
form glassfish (which is OSGi-ready and includes the API) or implement our own 
version.

WDYT ?

Regards
Felix

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