[Savannah-register-public] Re: About the JSON license

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

Indeed it doesn't look free, because of this silly "Good, not Evil".
On the other hand, http://www.json.org/ references a good dozen Java
implementations of the Java spec, so you could suggest the user to
switch to another library with a really free license.

-- 
Sylvain

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:58:28PM -0300, Jonathan Gonzalez V. wrote:
> 
> Hi Beuc,
> 
> I found this license and as I see it's violate the freedom 0, so isn't a
> GPL-Compatible license, can you give me your opinion?
> 
> Copyright (c) 2002 JSON.org
> 
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
> of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
> in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
> to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
> copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
> furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> 
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
> copies or substantial portions of the Software.
> 
> The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
> 
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
> AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
> LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
> OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
> SOFTWARE.
> 
> The url is: http://www.json.org/java/org/json/JSONObject.java
> 
> Is just an example file because you cannot find any LICENSE or COPYING
> file inside of the package,
> 
> Regards,