The following information has been received from ASF legal: The JSON License has been moved to Category X (https://www.apache.org/legal/ > resolved#category-x). > o No new project, sub-project or codebase, which has not > used JSON licensed jars (or similar), are allowed to use > them. In other words, if you haven't been using them, you > aren't allowed to start. It is Cat-X. > o If you have been using it, and have done so in a *release*, > AND there has been NO pushback from your community/eco-system, > you have a temporary exclusion from the Cat-X classification thru > April 30, 2017. At that point in time, ANY and ALL usage > of these JSON licensed artifacts are DISALLOWED. You must > either find a suitably licensed replacement, or do without. > There will be NO exceptions. > o Any situation not covered by the above is an implicit > DISALLOWAL of usage.
As far as I can tell, none of XGC, Batik, or FOP currently use JSON. Regards, Glenn Adams XML Graphics PMC Chair
