Bug 1055917

Summary:	json-lib possibly contains "evil" MIT code
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michal Srb <msrb>
Component:	json-lib	Assignee:	gil cattaneo <puntogil>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Michal Srb 2014-01-21 08:47:05 UTC

Description of problem:

From pom.xml:
"This product includes software developed by Douglas Crockford (http://www.crockford.com)."

Douglas Crockford likes to release software under MIT license with infamous "evil" clause [1]: 

"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."

It is possible that library doesn't contain non-free code anymore. I cannot point to any specific source file. But I think we should at least try to contact upstream and ask for clarification.

[1]: http://www.json.org/license.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
json-lib-2.3-12

Comment 1 Michal Srb 2014-01-22 08:02:43 UTC

Ok, I think this is not a problem. See following links for the context:

http://sourceforge.net/p/json-lib/bugs/87/

http://markmail.org/message/tgugrzi2unaowerh#query:+page:1+mid:tgugrzi2unaowerh+state:results

https://github.com/aalmiray/Json-lib/commit/c785e4d630387c1e89b83bb6cc3c26420affe420

Closing as NOTABUG.