id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
9590	JSON code is not compatible with GPL	anonymous	Don-vip	"The JSON code (in /src/org/json/) is licensed under the restriction of the morality clause ""The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."" which violates point 6 of the open source definition (http://opensource.org/osd) and software freedom 0. This means that this code is proprietary and not open source. (The license is also incompatible with the GPL if used in the same program.)

Under the JSON morality license the code cannot be safely distributed as free and open source software by downstream projects like GNU/Linux distributions. For the sake of downstreams, it would be great, if you provided the option to exclude the problematic parts without losing substantial functionality."	defect	closed	major	14.01	Core		fixed	JSON, license