[libvirt] JSON license is non-free - how are we affected?

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Blake
The QMP monitor uses JSON as its underlying base. However, when you read the license of JSON [1], you will note that it has a pretty severe limitation (The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil). In fact, this limitation is severe enough that the FSF has declared that the JSON license is

Re: [libvirt] JSON license is non-free - how are we affected?

2012-05-22 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 22/05/2012 17:51, Eric Blake ha scritto: Is the JSON license only applicable to code downloaded from json.org, but not to the actual JSON language specification? Yes, of course. I think not even Oracle disagrees. If so, does that mean that a clean-room implementation of JSON (the

Re: [libvirt] JSON license is non-free - how are we affected?

2012-05-22 Thread Eric Blake
On 05/22/2012 09:58 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: Il 22/05/2012 17:51, Eric Blake ha scritto: Is the JSON license only applicable to code downloaded from json.org, but not to the actual JSON language specification? Yes, of course. I think not even Oracle disagrees. If so, does that mean that