Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] [PATCH 1/2] detect_license: detect the non-free JSON license.

[Assaf Gordon]

To clarify:

On 09/25/2015 07:44 AM, Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro wrote:

> Em Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:22:43 GMT Karl Berry <address@hidden> escreveu:

> > [ ...]The Software shall be>> used for Good, not Evil [...]
> >
> > People distribute json files with that too-cute notice?
>
> Yeah, that is what makes it non-free. :-(

This notice is part of the JSON license ( http://www.json.org/license.html ),
and was applied to the original implementation of the JSON library,
not JSON data files themselves.

It is also mentioned in the gnu license list (as non-free):
  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#JSON

Of the many current JSON implementation (listed in http://www.json.org/ ),
I can't easily spot any that still use this non-free license (most are 
MIT/BSD/GPL etc).
Not sure why someone decided to use that specific license for his new project
(except perhaps, if they thought that limiting usage for "good, not evil" just 
"sounds good" without understanding the licensing implications).

Perhaps if the far future, if we have the time, we could add explicit detection 
code
for all the licenses mentioned in the gnu license list.
That would be fantastic.

regards,
 - assaf