The JSON License

This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but adds a clause mandating: “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, the license is nonfree.

Yes, the user has complete freedom with the GPL, this means that the user is free to use the software for evil.

How can JSON objects not be great evil?

XML > Gayson

>>4
protobuf > JSON ≥ XML

>>1
Doug Crockford may see the "evil" clause as a pretty funny joke, but speaking from experience, cautious parties in the industry won't touch vague license terms like this with a 10-foot penis.

cautious parties in the industry won't touch vague license terms like this
That's because the industry is evil.

>>3
That's good if you want to keep your software free but out of ENTERPRISE. Too bad Stallman didn't think of it.

>>4
XML is fucking shit, back to /r/java please

>>6,7
IBM explicitly asked for a special license for them, their lawyers said that they (IBM) weren't going to use it for evil but some of their clients might.

INI > *

YAML is the new JSON.

>>7-10
Who's to say what good and evil are, though? It's poorly defined and not worth the risk/ hassle.

>>13
ENTERPRISE is also an ambiguous term.

Unsurprisingly, ENTERPRISE and evil mean the same thing.

This really fucking sucks guyz...