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Re: Osmium packages



On 07/04/2015 04:01 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 07/04/2015 03:22 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
>>> One change important for packaging: osmium-tool now includes the RapidJSON
>>> library. License info in LICENSE-rapidjson.txt must probably be added to
>>> Debian package. RapidJSON is a header-only library.
>>
>> The RapidJSON license contains the problematic json-no-evil license [1]
>> that we cannot include in Debian.
>>
>> Can you change the JSON support to use a JSON implementation that does
>> not have the problematic license (libjsoncpp for example)?
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
> 
> The problematic JSON_checker utility and  included in the upstream
> RapidJSON project is not included in the osmium-tool copy, so the JSON
> no-evil problem doesn't seem to actually affect osmium.

Despite the RapidJSON includes not being affected by the json-evil
license issue, lintian is still triggered on LICENSE-rapidjson.txt.

 E: osmium-tool source: license-problem-json-evil LICENSE-rapidjson.txt

Removing the JSON license from the LICENSE-rapidjson.txt file seems
reasonable to resolve this. This is done in the attached patch.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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