Bug#712159: ITP: r-cran-rjsonio -- GNU R package "RJSONIO: Serialize R objects to JSON"

[Pablo Oliveira <pablo@sifflez.org>]

Dear Sebastien,

On Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:27:25 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le vendredi 14 juin 2013 à 09:36 +0200, Pablo Oliveira a écrit :
>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Bastien ROUCARIES
>> <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> wrote:
>>         Le 13 juin 2013 18:21, "Pablo Oliveira" <pablo@sifflez.org> a
>>         écrit :
>>
>>         [...]
>>         > * License         : B
>>         Not BSD : BSD + évil clause
>>
>>         Please do not package as is
>>
>> I'm not sure to understand the problem.
>
> The problem is the following clause in src/JSON_parser.c:
>
>  The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
>
> This makes the software nonfree, and it should therefore be rejected by
> ftpmasters. See [1] and [2] for discussions of this problem.

Thanks a lot for clarifying the legal issue.

> I also encountered this issue when trying to package "WDI" from CRAN,
> which depends on RJSONIO. As a workaround, I am going to package
> "rjson", which also does the job (but is slower, and has a slightly
> different API which therefore implies to patch on WDI).

Great, rjson is a slower, but functionally close alternative.
Thanks a lot for packaging it!

> Ideally RJSONIO should be fixed by (1) repackaging the tarball without
> JSON_parser.{c,h} and (2) providing equivalent functionality with a
> patch. Unfortunately I don’t have the time and skills to do that.

I'm currently on vacations until the 22 july. I will have a look at my
return from vacation.

Thanks,

Pablo