PHP JSON licensing and PHP 5.5

citricsquid · on Jan 30, 2014

This post is slightly misleading and also 6 months old, it's a Debian issue not a PHP issue.

    Tim, if you had upgraded from the version provided by php.net you 
    would not have seen a problem. We have not removed json and we 
    will never release a version of php without json support built in. Any 
    changes in 5.5 is due to whatever distro packaging you are using which 
    we have no control over.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63520

tedchs · on Jan 30, 2014

The best thing about morals, like standards, is there are so many to choose from!

angersock · on Jan 30, 2014

Great part:

While it may seem trivial, the author of JSON.org “politely refuses” to amend the clause.

"the author"...as though there's any point in pretending it isn't Crockford, right?

EDIT: Also, the "don't be evil" license pretty much precludes it from being used for PHP, right? I mean, just on moral principles?