Hi Gregor! Am 11.06.2010 14:28, schrieb gregor herrmann:
>> The JSON license is consideres non-free ("The Software shall be used for >> Good, not Evil."), see the recent discussions on debian-legal. > I guess you are referring to the thread starting at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/03/msg00064.html > (if not please provide a pointer). > > Anyway, if it's the authoritative point of view of the ftp-masters we > have to deal with it somehow. We discussed it in the ftp-team and came to the conclusion, that it's not okay. Some of us even talked to upstream to clarify that, and the clarification didn't convinced us either. > What surprises me is that json.js is also in libjs-yui -- ah, it's a > different file. But doing something similar?! > > I guess someone who has more knowledge about this javascript/JSON > stuff should look into this and find a replacement -- if it's > actually needed. Torsten Werner told me, that there was indeed an older version, given completely to the public domain without the problematic phrase. And I think he also mentioned forks of json with the the same functionality. So maybe he can be of help. Best regards, Alexander -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org