Bug#721072: libjson-java contains non free elements from json.org

2014-11-12 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
It seems the author of JSON-lib removed the shall be used for Good, not Evil license in 2009 [1] because in 2006 Douglas Crockford released a version of the json.org library licensed under the Apache-2.0 license to allow its integration with the Apache Abdera project [2]. In the Abdera repository

Bug#721072: libjson-java contains non free elements from json.org

2013-08-27 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Package: libjson-java Version: 2.3-2 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 JSON-lib, packaged as libjson-java, contains some elements from the json.org Java API which is distributed under the non free shall be used for Good, not Evil license. The JSONString interface from libjson-java