From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42309) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWrTf-0005Xu-Hl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 11:58:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWrTa-0003lz-TB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 11:58:27 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f173.google.com ([209.85.213.173]:42753) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWrTa-0003lj-LP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 11:58:22 -0400 Received: by yenm4 with SMTP id m4so6859446yen.4 for ; Tue, 22 May 2012 08:58:20 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <4FBBB795.6080308@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:58:13 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4FBBB5ED.1080408@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4FBBB5ED.1080408@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] JSON license is non-free - how are we affected? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" , QEMU Developers Il 22/05/2012 17:51, Eric Blake ha scritto: > Is the JSON license only applicable to code downloaded from json.org, > but not to the actual JSON language specification? Yes, of course. I think not even Oracle disagrees. > If so, does that > mean that a clean-room implementation of JSON (the language > specification) can be written with different license than JSON (the > license), and that such alternate code could then be linked into qemu? That is what we did, in fact. Paolo