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[jira] [Commented] (TIKA-1804) Tika use no free json.org
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Tim Allison commented on TIKA-1804:
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Y, I ran into the same problem...it shouldn't be too hard to write a SAX parser for the original XML and get rid of json entirely. I'm frankly lazy and haven't bothered getting the journal parser running locally. If someone could share example xml output, it shouldn't take more than a few hours, I'd think.
> 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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