Thanks Sylvain,

The JSON license is one I've come across before in the ASF. It's been approved 
by legal, see http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html

Ross

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On 2 Jul 2011, at 19:08, Sylvain Wallez <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 29/06/11 19:33, Franklin, Matthew B. a écrit :
>> Vote will be open for 72 hours.
>> 
>> [ ] +1  approve
>> [ ] +0  no opinion
>> [ ] -1  disapprove (and reason why)
> 
> There's an external component whose licence has a weird phrasing: in 
> rave-portal/src/main/appended-resources/META-INF/LICENSE we can see that 
> org.json's licence is BSD-ish, but states "The Software shall be used for 
> Good, not Evil."
> 
> Sounds nice and innocent, but from a lawyer's point of view (which I am not), 
> what does this mean? What is "evil" software? Isn't this implicitely defining 
> fields of use, which would make it incompatible with the Apache Licence?
> 
> Not sure this a serious issue though, but worth mentioning.
> 
> Other than that, +1 for the release! I'm rather impressed with how fast you 
> guys came up with a first release !
> 
> Sylvain
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> 

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