Bugs item #3585763, was opened at 2012-11-09 06:24 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by mbanck You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=379133&aid=3585763&group_id=23629
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Packaging Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Michael Banck (mbanck) Assigned to: Nicolas (nicove) Summary: JSON (src/com/json) license is non-free Initial Comment: Hi, it has been brought to our attention that the JSON license in src/com/json is not an open -source license, as it includes the provision "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." This is in contradiction to the FSF's Free Software Definition Freedom #0, "The freedom to run the program, for any purpose", and the Debian Free Software Guidelines clause #6, "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor: The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research." This might sounds like a joke at first, but it is a real problem, and apparently the above clause has been added by the JSON developers in order to poke fun at the Free Software community and introduce license compatibility issues. Is there a way to remove the JSON code without breaking JMol completely and/or can it be reimplemented/worked around reasonably easily? Otherwise, JMol might have to be removed from Debian and Ubuntu (and possible other distributions like OpenSuse and Fedora) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Michael Banck (mbanck) Date: 2012-11-09 06:35 Message: The FSF consider the JSON license non-free: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#JSON As does the Fedora project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Main#Bad_Licenses ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=379133&aid=3585763&group_id=23629 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_nov _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list Jmol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
