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JSON cannot be used for evil, unless you have permission from Crockford: http://www.json.org/license.html http://www.json.org/license.html
by phpnode 14y ago
JSON cannot be used for evil, unless you have permission from Crockford: http://www.json.org/license.html http://www.json.org/license.html
- robin_reala 14y agoIncidentally, IBM have permission from Crockford to be evil or to have evil sublicensees: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764024
- dbaupp 14y agoAnd that clause is (widely considered) a bad idea, because "evil" is relative (e.g. some people think abortions are evil, others don't). http://www.sonatype.com/people/2012/03/use-json-well-youd-better-not-be-evil/ http://www.sonatype.com/people/2012/03/use-json-well-youd-be... http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license http://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#Criticism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#Criticism