[jira] [Resolved] (SPARK-18262) JSON.org license is now CatX

["Reynold Xin (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18262?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Reynold Xin resolved SPARK-18262.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 2.1.0

> JSON.org license is now CatX
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-18262
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18262
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Sean Busbey
>            Assignee: Sean Owen
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 2.1.0
>
>
> per [update resolved legal|http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#json]:
> {quote}
> CAN APACHE PRODUCTS INCLUDE WORKS LICENSED UNDER THE JSON LICENSE?
> No. As of 2016-11-03 this has been moved to the 'Category X' license list. Prior to this, use of the JSON Java library was allowed. See Debian's page for a list of alternatives.
> {quote}
> I'm not actually clear if Spark is using one of the JSON.org licensed libraries. As of current master (dc4c6009) the java library gets called out in the [NOTICE file for our source repo|https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/dc4c60098641cf64007e2f0e36378f000ad5f6b1/NOTICE#L424] but:
> 1) It doesn't say where in the source
> 2) the given url is 404 (http://www.json.org/java/index.html)
> 3) It doesn't actually say in the NOTICE what license the inclusion is under
> 4) the JSON.org license for the java {{org.json:json}} artifact (what the blurb in #2 is usually referring to) doesn't show up in our LICENSE file, nor in the {{licenses/}} directory
> 5) I don't see a direct reference to the {{org.json:json}} artifact in our poms.
> So maybe it's just coming in transitively and we can exclude it / ping whoever is bringing it in?



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