unretiring json

[Mikolaj Izdebski]

On 10/28/2013 10:25 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> according to
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Orphaned_package_that_need_new_maintainers
> I'd like to announce that I want to unretire the json package [1],
> which is needed it for closure-compiler [2].
> 
> According to dead.package file, "package was retired on 2012-08-06 due
> to no active maintainers for the package."
> Upstream is dead (incompatibly relicensed) so I don't expect much work
> with updating :)
> 
> Re-review request is at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1024114.

I added a comment to the bug, but I'll repeat it here too.

I would *strongly* recommend against reviving this package.

This library used to be free software, but recent releases are non-free
(proprietary software) and as such they cannot be included in Fedora.
All attempts to convince upstream make free releases failed.

While it would be possible to keep maintaining the old (free) version I
think it's much better for us to migrate to different JSON libraries.
Packaging old unmaintained libraries like this one while there are many
alternatives is against one of Fedora goals -- innovation.

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Mikolaj Izdebski
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