From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53365) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWsOM-0004wf-15 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 12:57:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWsOF-0005c7-Rb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 12:57:01 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38752) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SWsOF-0005br-IX for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2012 12:56:55 -0400 Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4MGurqv023112 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 22 May 2012 12:56:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4FBBC54F.7030708@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 10:56:47 -0600 From: Eric Blake MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4FBBB5ED.1080408@redhat.com> <4FBBB795.6080308@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4FBBB795.6080308@redhat.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0F97C5AF32F3A02CFB2CD236" 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: Paolo Bonzini Cc: "libvir-list@redhat.com" , QEMU Developers This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0F97C5AF32F3A02CFB2CD236 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/22/2012 09:58 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > 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? >=20 > Yes, of course. I think not even Oracle disagrees. >=20 >> 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?= >=20 > That is what we did, in fact. Indeed, it looks like libvirt's choice to use YAJL (under the ISC license) rather than code from json.org was made for the same reason. Sorry for any false alarm scares, then :) --=20 Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org --------------enig0F97C5AF32F3A02CFB2CD236 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at http://people.redhat.com/eblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJPu8VPAAoJEKeha0olJ0NqQsAH/RgC4vF4C4kaEs+ZknOSuM5q vi/cn6fHTlhWYGsmKJ4hVaoL4rZ3x4HyMXv7Ur8GOQATy+eLwab94tkMjwG6VPtE 1otO+O5QO3eTLCrevG0RbosRRosGcxHRXjxENNYTUwv4t41RoCfhSd0nYDPXK7mm iFgt+fYWN7lBQbtVjJDmPFBgAbOm4VqBD0l1qunBlFTLa8gWpFnEnaWTiDvDI+rq pYVDNOfJ0lgGWsiFuG59lfNbubqBC7gNZmQA3sgS7URO+Jbez3HEG78Eg+e4n70V oVyyj4H3U3UHHA+DLYOSOyitVVgim796uuBVDzmdS8WNWo0r8ta9dw7+0UnoMpo= =CPhV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0F97C5AF32F3A02CFB2CD236--