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:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Douglas Crockford <doug...@crockford.com>
wrote:
> The license looks fine to me.
So he refuses politely... which means it's time for PHP.net to think about this
license issue (e.g. use a different implementation for JSON).
And you're right, it's *also* problem in Debian, and we talk to the different
upstream projects, trying to resolve the issue with each of them, but that's
still a problem of the upstream itself.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-11-14 19:51:02] kaplan at debian dot org
I wasn't aware for having non php.net developers involved in the code,
otherwise I wouldn't asked just to remove that paragraph but to resolve the
issue with upstream, which is what I'm trying to do.
Your licensing policy is what we all do, no need to defend it (:
Anyway, thanks for the fast responses.
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[2012-11-14 19:49:50] ras...@php.net
Well, I think you will find that code from json.org is in a lot of packages
Debian ships. This isn't a PHP-Debian issue, this is a Debian-json.org issue
for
you guys to work out.
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[2012-11-14 19:47:35] kaplan at debian dot org
Mail sent, thanks. Hope he will help to solve this. Otherwise we should think
of a plan b.
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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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