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stack commented on HBASE-2383:
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@Andrew Can we upgrade our jersey? What about the unused jars? Is that so?
Regards current JSON stuff in o.a.h.h.rest, after taking a look, I'm going to
make a patch that removes json as one of the serializations options available.
That leaves xml, what everyone probably uses anyways. My thought is that the
JSON is just not used. If someone really needs it in 0.20.4, there'll be a
patch here to restore it if wanted. This is an incompatible change.
I'll put up a patch in a sec.
The alternative is redoing the 40 odd TOJSON calls so that they emit JSON in
accordance w/ the customizations AgileJSON adds. My thought is the former will
take an hour or two to do. The latter way more than this ensuring my
replacement did exactly as was there previous -- and all for a little-use
feature (if its used at all).
> Replace JSON-licensed json dependencies
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>
> Key: HBASE-2383
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2383
> Project: Hadoop HBase
> Issue Type: Task
> Affects Versions: 0.20.3
> Reporter: Thomas Koch
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.20.4, 0.21.0
>
>
> HBase depends on agile-json, which includes the following phrase in its
> license:
> "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."
> Debian-Legal advised me, that for this phrase the software is considered
> non-free. As a consequence, hbase could not be included in the official
> Debian distribution but only in the contrib repository. I discussed this
> issue also with crockford, but he made it clear that he has no intention to
> change his license.
> http://www.json.org lists several Java Json libraries. Maybe you could take
> another one with a more sane license text?
> Yes, this issue is highly controversial and you'll most likely not spend the
> hours of work only because crockford and Debian are both bullheads.
> Just keep this issue open as crockford-remembrance issue. May it help to
> fight the evil!
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