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Re: [Qemu-devel] JSON license is non-free - how are we affected?
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Paolo Bonzini |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] JSON license is non-free - how are we affected? |
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Tue, 22 May 2012 17:58:13 +0200 |
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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