Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520&edit=1
ID: 63520
Updated by: ras...@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:
I am not saying it isn't a tricky license clause to deal with and it would be
better if it wasn't there. However, I am also not keen on spending resources on
rewriting code for this reason. If someone supplies a functionally equivalent
replacement, we will have a look at it. But as far as I am concerned, license-
wise the terms Good and Evil are not legal terms. These are more subjective
self-describing terms and since I deem PHP's use of the code as "Good" then we
comply with the license. Could others perhaps use PHP and thus the code for
"Evil" and therefore not comply with the license? Sure, but there are many
things people can do with our code that is either against the various licenses
involved or even illegal criminally. It is something we cannot control.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-11-15 18:01:24] paj...@php.net
More seriously, as soon as the license is changed upstream, we will merge it.
But
we won't be able to do anything before.
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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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