Thanks a lot, that's very helpful, Andreas. On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 10:47:55AM +0100, Markus Gesmann wrote: > 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 > >
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