Hi, Indeed it doesn't look free, because of this silly "Good, not Evil". On the other hand, http://www.json.org/ references a good dozen Java implementations of the Java spec, so you could suggest the user to switch to another library with a really free license.
-- Sylvain On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:58:28PM -0300, Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote: > > Hi Beuc, > > I found this license and as I see it's violate the freedom 0, so isn't a > GPL-Compatible license, can you give me your opinion? > > Copyright (c) 2002 JSON.org > > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy > of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal > in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights > to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell > copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is > furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all > copies or substantial portions of the Software. > > The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. > > THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR > IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, > FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE > AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER > LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, > OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE > SOFTWARE. > > The url is: http://www.json.org/java/org/json/JSONObject.java > > Is just an example file because you cannot find any LICENSE or COPYING > file inside of the package, > > Regards,
