Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520&edit=1
ID: 63520
User updated by: kaplan at debian dot org
Reported by: kaplan at debian dot org
Summary: JSON extension includes a problematic license
statement
Status: Suspended
Type: Bug
Package: JSON related
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Mail sent, thanks. Hope he will help to solve this. Otherwise we should think
of a plan b.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-11-14 19:47:11] ras...@php.net
You can see the license here:
http://www.json.org/license.html
It explicitly states, "The above copyright notice and this permission notice
shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."
So we would be violating the terms of the license if we were to remove the
notice.
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[2012-11-14 19:44:06] ras...@php.net
As a policy we do not change the license of code we bundle. Contact Douglas
Crockford at json.org. He wrote this reference implementation that we are using.
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[2012-11-14 19:38:49] kaplan at debian dot org
Well, json.org doesn't have any contact address, and also the DNS records
(whois) don't have anything useful. The only reference available is Omar
Kilani, but it doesn't seem like he wrote the original code.
Any help / pointer would be great.
In any case, this is still a code distributed by PHP.net and I don't see a
reason to ignore this by pointing to another project.
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[2012-11-14 18:05:17] paj...@php.net
You will have to ask the original author, at json.org.
Once they have updated the license, we can just merge the changes.
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[2012-11-14 17:27:41] kaplan at debian dot org
Description:
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Hi,
This statement in the JSON extensions source code worries Debian about
complience
with the Debian free software guide (DFSG).
It would be great to remove this paragraph as to be clean the first license
paragraph is obviously free software license.
./ext/json/utf8_to_utf16.c:The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
./ext/json/JSON_parser.c:The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
./ext/json/utf8_decode.c:The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
./README.REDIST.BINS:The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
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