[jira] [Created] (TIKA-1804) Tika use no free json.org

["gil cattaneo (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

gil cattaneo created TIKA-1804:
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             Summary: Tika use no free json.org
                 Key: TIKA-1804
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1804
             Project: Tika
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: gil cattaneo


Hi
Your project is licensed under Apache License Version 2,
but your code pulls in code from json.org under Douglas Crockford’s bad licence [1] , and is non-free [2].
Such usage restriction makes the license incompatible with The Open Source Definition and
The Free Software Definition. Because Tika binary distribution includes this software,
it effectively becomes proprietary software itself.
You may also comment that the json.org license is valid for You but for many Linux distributions it is not acceptable.

I hope to continue to maintain Tika for Fedora, without having to run into these problems.

Please try to replace it with one of the many free alternatives.

Regards

[1]
./tika-1.11/tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/journal/GrobidRESTParser.java
./tika-1.11/tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/journal/JournalParser.java
./tika-1.11/tika-parsers/src/main/java/org/apache/tika/parser/journal/TEIParser.java

[2]
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
http://www.sonatype.com/people/2012/03/use-json-well-youd-better-not-be-evil/
http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license



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