Hi Andreas, Thanks for the little challenge ;-)
It appears to be straightforward to change googleVis from RJSONIO to jsonlite. You can access version 0.6.0 of googleVis (using jsonlite) from GitHub: https://github.com/mages/googleVis. I would very much appreciate, if you could test as well. Best regards Markus — Markus Gesmann Blog: www.magesblog.com > On 2 Jul 2016, at 09:48, Andreas Tille <andr...@fam-tille.de> wrote: > > Hi Markus, > > On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:08:54AM +0200, Markus Gesmann wrote: >> We opted for RJSONIO at the time as we believed it is has the better >> performance. >> >> If would start the project today, we would probably go with Jeroen Ooms’ >> jsonlite package, which is also MIT, as RJSONIO and rjson don’t appear to be >> actively developed anymore. > > Jsonlite would be fine as well. > >> Perhaps, you can encourage the other package developers to change their >> license. > > What package developers do you mean? Do you think RJSONIO should change > to pure MIT? That's probably not possible since they are using code > from the (famous) non-evil author who has fought endless flamewars to > defend his crazy idea (as if evil people would care for a license ... > :-(). > > Do you think there is much effort to port googleVis to jsonlite? > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > >> On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 12:31:54AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: >>> Hi Markus, >>> >>> I intend to package googleVis for Debian. I realised that it depends >>> from RJSONIO which is using code with MIT-no-evil license - which is >>> actually evil since it is non-free. >>> >>> Could googleVis be adapted to use r-cran-rjson instead? It is >>> mentioned here in the Debian bug tracking system: >>> >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712159#32 >>> >>> This would be really helpful >>> >>> Andreas. >>> >>> -- >>> http://fam-tille.de > > -- > http://fam-tille.de -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers