Sean Busbey created SPARK-18262:
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Summary: JSON.org license is now CatX
Key: SPARK-18262
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18262
Project: Spark
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Sean Busbey
Priority: Blocker
per [update resolved legal|http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#json]:
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CAN APACHE PRODUCTS INCLUDE WORKS LICENSED UNDER THE JSON LICENSE?
No. As of 2016-11-03 this has been moved to the 'Category X' license list.
Prior to this, use of the JSON Java library was allowed. See Debian's page for
a list of alternatives.
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I'm not actually clear if Spark is using one of the JSON.org licensed
libraries. As of current master (dc4c6009) the java library gets called out in
the [NOTICE file for our source
repo|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/dc4c60098641cf64007e2f0e36378f000ad5f6b1/NOTICE#L424]
but:
1) It doesn't say where in the source
2) the given url is 404 (http://www.json.org/java/index.html)
3) It doesn't actually say in the NOTICE what license the inclusion is under
4) the JSON.org license for the java {{org.json:json}} artifact (what the blurb
in #2 is usually referring to) doesn't show up in our LICENSE file, nor in the
{{licenses/}} directory
5) I don't see a direct reference to the {{org.json:json}} artifact in our poms.
So maybe it's just coming in transitively and we can exclude it / ping whoever
is bringing it in?
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