On 07/04/2015 04:42 PM, Jochen Topf wrote: > On Sa, Jul 04, 2015 at 04:35:01 +0200, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >> On 07/04/2015 04:01 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >>> On 07/04/2015 03:22 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote: >>>>> One change important for packaging: osmium-tool now includes the RapidJSON >>>>> library. License info in LICENSE-rapidjson.txt must probably be added to >>>>> Debian package. RapidJSON is a header-only library. >>>> >>>> The RapidJSON license contains the problematic json-no-evil license [1] >>>> that we cannot include in Debian. >>>> >>>> Can you change the JSON support to use a JSON implementation that does >>>> not have the problematic license (libjsoncpp for example)? >>>> >>>> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil >>> >>> The problematic JSON_checker utility and included in the upstream >>> RapidJSON project is not included in the osmium-tool copy, so the JSON >>> no-evil problem doesn't seem to actually affect osmium. >> >> Despite the RapidJSON includes not being affected by the json-evil >> license issue, lintian is still triggered on LICENSE-rapidjson.txt. >> >> E: osmium-tool source: license-problem-json-evil LICENSE-rapidjson.txt >> >> Removing the JSON license from the LICENSE-rapidjson.txt file seems >> reasonable to resolve this. This is done in the attached patch. > > Lets wait a day or two on this to get the RapidJSON people a chance to say > something. If there is no answer from them, I'll apply your patch. But I > don't want to go back and forth several times, if they have a different > take on this.
OK, waiting a bit for the RapidJSON upstream response is no issue. I've postponed the upload of osmium-tool (1.1.1-1), and only updated it in git, in case some of the headers are derived from json.org code under the json-evil license. Kind Regards, Bas -- GPG Key ID: 4096R/6750F10AE88D4AF1 Fingerprint: 8182 DE41 7056 408D 6146 50D1 6750 F10A E88D 4AF1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
