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[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-1804) Tika use no free json.org
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Nick Burch commented on TIKA-1804:
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The JSON license has been approved for use by Apache Projects by the ASF Legal Affairs committee, without affecting the license conditions of the overall software, see http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#json
If you feel that's incorrect, you'd need to take that up with the Legal Affairs committee on legal-discuss@ - they're the ones qualified / charged with deciding on this sort of stuff, not us!
> 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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