Any chance to replace no-evil JSON code in RJSONIO

Fri Jul 1 07:58:23 UTC 2016

On 01/07/16 09:54, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
> 
> Daniel Pocock has kindly created Debian packages for RJSONIO.
> Unfortunately these packages are not part of the official Debian
> distribution but endet up in non-free due to the unfortunate license
> choice MIT-no-evil for JSON_parser.*.  As far as I know this unfortunate
> license was discussed several times with its author with no positive
> outcome.  So it seems to be the only chance to get RJSONIO into Debian
> main if we could find a replacement for this code.  Do you see any
> chance to use an alternative implementation in RJSONIO.
> 
> I'm interested since I want to package other R packages for Debian that
> are depending from RJSONIO (googleVis and others that are depending from
> googleVis).
> 

Can the other packages be adapted to use r-cran-rjson instead?  It is
mentioned here:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=712159#32