Bug#802263: RFP: r-cran-rjsonio - serialize R objects to JSON

[Jonas Smedegaard]

[adding bugreport to our conversation]

Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2015-10-19 00:02:23)
> Quoting Jonathon Love (2015-10-18 23:19:06)
>> i was originally going to package this, but it turns out it's built 
>> on libjson, which makes it non-free:
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
>>
>> so it can't be used with GPL code (without violating the GPL).
>>
>> you might find that r-cran-rjson fits your needs - we ported all our 
>> work across to r-cran-json with minimal difficulty.

Scott Draves, author of Beaker Notebook, just now discovered that no, 
the libjson used by RJSONIO is a *different* one than the badly licensed 
one.  For starters, it is C++ code, not C...

Homepage for this libjson is http://sourceforge.net/projects/libjson/


> Thanks a lot!
>
> I have now made upstream aware of the problem: 
> https://github.com/twosigma/beaker-notebook/issues/2758

I made upstream of _Beaker_ aware.

Had I only made upstream of RJSONIO aware, perhaps they'd pointed out 
our mistake long ago.  Oh well...


 - Jonas

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