Le 5/29/12 6:30 PM, Steffen Möller a écrit : > On 05/29/2012 02:23 PM, Mehdi Dogguy wrote: >> On 29/05/12 14:17, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:03:27PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: >>>> On 2012-05-29 13:59, Olivier Sallou wrote: >>>>> Hi, biojava3 makes use of json.org library. this library is not >>>>> packaged in Debian. After a google, I saw old posts saying that >>>>> library is (was?) not compliant regarding its license [0]. >>>>> Though, after a quick look on their web site I do not see any >>>>> restriction. >>>>> >>>>> Can anyone tell me is something wrong with their code for not >>>>> being packaged? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [0] http://www.json.org/license.html >>>>> >>>>> Olivier >>>>> >>>> """ The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. """ >>>> >>>> Fails DFSG#5 or DFSG#6. >>>> >>>> Not to mention "evil" is not defined, so it makes it hard to >>>> figure out whether "we are doing evil or not". >>> I'd call this an "over-picky" interpretation of something that rather >>> qualifies as a joke rather than a license which can be dealt with in >>> court (disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, just try to apply common >>> sense.) >>> >> FWIW, FTP-masters already rejected packages because their license had >> the "to be used for good, not evil" bit. So there is at least one side >> that it is not taking it as a joke. Upstream should remove that clause >> to comply with the DFSG terms. > "intentionally evil" might save it. Anyway, libjson-java is not possibly > it, is it? > Well ... that has its home in http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/ and there > it reads > "JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps, collections, > java arrays and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans. It is > based on the work by Douglas Crockford in http://www.json.org/java" > > Anyway, I would not have a problem with biojava in contrib. Would be too bad.... I expect that upstream will take into account my request to use a free one. In the meanwhile, I could deliver biojava without the library biojava3-ws (web service) which is the only one impacted by json lib.
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