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

[Jonathon Love]

hi,

> [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...

try this one:

https://github.com/duncantl/RJSONIO/blob/master/src/JSON_parser.c

"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."

> 
> 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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