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

From: Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:39:35 +0000
Subject: Bug #63520 [Sus]: JSON extension includes a problematic license statement
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 ID:                 63520
 Updated by:         rasmus@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:

Sorry, I don't see us ripping out and rewriting the json code due to this.


Previous Comments:
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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 <douglas@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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[2012-11-14 19:51:02] kaplan at debian dot org

I wasn't aware for having non php.net developers involved in the code, otherwise I
wouldn't asked just to remove that paragraph but to resolve the issue with upstream, which is
what I'm trying to do.

Your licensing policy is what we all do, no need to defend it (:

Anyway, thanks for the fast responses.

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[2012-11-14 19:49:50] rasmus@php.net

Well, I think you will find that code from json.org is in a lot of packages 
Debian ships. This isn't a PHP-Debian issue, this is a Debian-json.org issue for 
you guys to work out.

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[2012-11-14 19:47:35] kaplan at debian dot org

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

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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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