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Re: evil prohibition downgraded to no-no-evil suggstion



On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 02:45:59PM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> The lintian tag license-problem-json-evil, added per BTS 692616, should
> have its description modified ... because those files have been
> relicensed under free terms!


Uh....

> So now, people should be told to get new
> version of the cson files, without the problematic prohibition on evil.

json != cson.

Stephan Beal <sgbeal@googlemail.com> != Douglas Crockford

Is this CSON code based on Crockford's code? If so, he *can't* dismiss
these terms.

> See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2013/09/msg00051.html for
> details and (presumably) discussion, but the important information from
> upstream is included below.
> 
> If someone who has edit rights would care to edit the immutable page
> https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil appropriately, that would

Again, json != cson.

> be great.  It might also be a good idea for someone to scan back for
> bugs tagged json-evil-license, open or closed or archived, and alert the
> relevant maintainers of this change.

Thank you for caring about the freeness of our archive :)


Cheers,
  Paul

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