[Biojava-dev] json library license issue in biojava3

[Andreas Prlic]

Hi Olivier,

Thanks for spotting this, I just committed a switch to the json-lib
library to the trunk...

Andreas



On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Olivier Sallou <olivier.sallou at irisa.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> the json library used in biojava3 (json.org), has a license not
> considered as "free" by Debian and other open-source organizations (even
> for google open source projects).
>
> It indeed declares its use "for good and not evil". Though this could
> only be a joke, this creates an issue to put the software in open source
> distributions (like Debian), and prevents me from putting biojava3 in
> Debian (at least not biojava3-ws)
>
> Would you consider using an open source library for the JSON parsing?
> (there is for example json-lib at http://sourceforge.net/projects/json-lib/)
>
> Thanks
>
> Olivier
>
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