Bug #63520 [Sus]: JSON extension includes a problematic license statement

From: Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:47:35 +0000
Subject: Bug #63520 [Sus]: JSON extension includes a problematic license statement
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 ID:                 63520
 User updated by:    kaplan at debian dot org
 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:

Mail sent, thanks. Hope he will help to solve this. Otherwise we should think of a plan b.


Previous Comments:
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[2012-11-14 19:47:11] rasmus@php.net

You can see the license here:

http://www.json.org/license.html

It explicitly states, "The above copyright notice and this permission notice 
shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

So we would be violating the terms of the license if we were to remove the 
notice.

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[2012-11-14 19:44:06] rasmus@php.net

As a policy we do not change the license of code we bundle. Contact Douglas 
Crockford at json.org. He wrote this reference implementation that we are using.

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[2012-11-14 19:38:49] kaplan at debian dot org

Well, json.org doesn't have any contact address, and also the DNS records (whois) don't
have anything useful. The only reference available is Omar Kilani, but it doesn't seem like he
wrote the original code.

Any help / pointer would be great.

In any case, this is still a code distributed by PHP.net and I don't see a reason to ignore
this by pointing to another project.

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[2012-11-14 18:05:17] pajoye@php.net

You will have to ask the original author, at json.org.

Once they have updated the license, we can just merge the changes.

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[2012-11-14 17:27:41] kaplan at debian dot org

Description:
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Hi,

This statement in the JSON extensions source code worries Debian about complience 
with the Debian free software guide (DFSG).

It would be great to remove this paragraph as to be clean the first license 
paragraph is obviously free software license.

./ext/json/utf8_to_utf16.c:The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
./ext/json/JSON_parser.c:The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
./ext/json/utf8_decode.c:The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
./README.REDIST.BINS:The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.




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