unretiring json

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 05:52:11PM +0100, Mikolaj Izdebski wrote:
> 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.
OK, I'll try to do migrate. Thank you, and everybody else, for help
and advice.

Zbyszek