gil cattaneo created TIKA-1804:
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Summary: Tika use no free json.org
Key: TIKA-1804
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1804
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: gil cattaneo
Hi
Your project is licensed under Apache License Version 2,
but your code pulls in code from json.org under Douglas Crockford’s bad licence
[1] , and is non-free [2].
Such usage restriction makes the license incompatible with The Open Source
Definition and
The Free Software Definition. Because Tika binary distribution includes this
software,
it effectively becomes proprietary software itself.
You may also comment that the json.org license is valid for You but for many
Linux distributions it is not acceptable.
I hope to continue to maintain Tika for Fedora, without having to run into
these problems.
Please try to replace it with one of the many free alternatives.
Regards
[1]
./tika-1.11/tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/journal/GrobidRESTParser.java
./tika-1.11/tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/journal/JournalParser.java
./tika-1.11/tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/journal/TEIParser.java
[2]
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
http://www.sonatype.com/people/2012/03/use-json-well-youd-better-not-be-evil/
http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license
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