Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520&edit=1
ID: 63520
Updated by: paj...@php.net
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:
More seriously, as soon as the license is changed upstream, we will merge it.
But
we won't be able to do anything before.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-11-15 18:00:52] paj...@php.net
well, the FSF does not like the PHP license either. Nothing worries me here :)
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[2012-11-15 17:58:38] ansgar at debian dot org
I just want to note that the FSF[1] and other distributions like Fedora also
think this license is bad[2].
[1] <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#JSON>
[2] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Bad_Licenses>, look for
"JSON License"
So this is not a problem for just Debian.
Ansgar
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[2012-11-15 07:39:35] ras...@php.net
Sorry, I don't see us ripping out and rewriting the json code due to this.
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[2012-11-15 07:30:01] kaplan at debian dot org
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.
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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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