It seems the author of JSON-lib removed the "shall be used for Good, not Evil" license in 2009 [1] because in 2006 Douglas Crockford released a version of the json.org library licensed under the Apache-2.0 license to allow its integration with the Apache Abdera project [2]. In the Abdera repository the NOTICE file [3] contains this note:
"This software's extensions module contains a JSON writer for Atom XML that utilizes a JSON parser, Copyright (c) 2002, json.org. The code was licensed using Apache License by the author Douglas Crockford and made available at http://json.org/java/apache.zip We have included portions of the code in the extensions module." The URL http://json.org/java/apache.zip no longer works, but there are confirmations this URL contained an Apache licensed version of the library [4] and a copy of this file is hosted by the Fedora project [5]. This confirms the json.org code used in JSON-lib is legitimately licensed under the Apache-2.0 license. [1] http://sourceforge.net/p/json-lib/bugs/87/ [2] http://markmail.org/message/tgugrzi2unaowerh [3] https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/abdera/java/branches/0.3.0-incubating/NOTICE [4] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201007.mbox/%3caanlktimxlavjzcvsoeujmd7frwde-1zn9sqaswzqf...@mail.gmail.com%3E [5] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs/json/apache.zip/8f822e604866f92fde5c7b3f67b66809/apache.zip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
