Dear Sebastien,
On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:27:25 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le vendredi 14 juin 2013 à 09:36 +0200, Pablo Oliveira a écrit :
>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES
>> <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Le 13 juin 2013 18:21, "Pablo Oliveira" <pa...@sifflez.org> a
>> écrit :
>>
>> [...]
>> > * License : B
>> Not BSD : BSD + évil clause
>>
>> Please do not package as is
>>
>> I'm not sure to understand the problem.
>
> The problem is the following clause in src/JSON_parser.c:
>
> The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
>
> This makes the software nonfree, and it should therefore be rejected by
> ftpmasters. See [1] and [2] for discussions of this problem.
Thanks a lot for clarifying the legal issue.
> I also encountered this issue when trying to package "WDI" from CRAN,
> which depends on RJSONIO. As a workaround, I am going to package
> "rjson", which also does the job (but is slower, and has a slightly
> different API which therefore implies to patch on WDI).
Great, rjson is a slower, but functionally close alternative.
Thanks a lot for packaging it!
> Ideally RJSONIO should be fixed by (1) repackaging the tarball without
> JSON_parser.{c,h} and (2) providing equivalent functionality with a
> patch. Unfortunately I don’t have the time and skills to do that.
I'm currently on vacations until the 22 july. I will have a look at my
return from vacation.
Thanks,
Pablo
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