Debian Bug report logs - #802263
RFP: r-cran-rjsonio -- serialize R objects to JSON

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From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RFP: r-cran-rjsonio - serialize R objects to JSON

Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 23:02:32 +0200

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : r-cran-rjsonio
  Version         : 
  Upstream Author : Duncan Temple Lang
* URL             : https://github.com/cran/RJSONIO
* License         : BSD-3-Clause
  Programming Lang: R, C
  Description     : serialize R objects to JSON

 RJSONIO allows conversion to and from data in Javascript object 
 notation (JSON) format.  This allows R objects to be inserted into 
 Javascript/ECMAScript/ActionScript code and allows R programmers to 
 read and convert JSON content to R objects.
 .
  This is an alternative to rjson package. Originally, that was too 
 slow for converting large R objects to JSON and was not extensible.  
 rjson's performance is now similar to this package, and perhaps 
 slightly faster in some cases.

Package is needed by beaker-notebook (bug#795980) and the ShowMeBox 
project: https://wiki.debian.org/ShowMeBox - if interested, see also 
https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/showme-devel/2015-October/000050.html

Cc'ing Debian Science Maintainers in the hope they will pick this up.

 - Jonas

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Message #12 received at 802263@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>

To: Jonathon Love <jon@thon.love>, debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org, 802263@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#802263: RFP: r-cran-rjsonio - serialize R objects to JSON

Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 21:00:02 +0100

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Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2015-10-19 00:02:23)
> Quoting Jonathon Love (2015-10-18 23:19:06)
>> i was originally going to package this, but it turns out it's built 
>> on libjson, which makes it non-free:
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
>>
>> so it can't be used with GPL code (without violating the GPL).
>>
>> you might find that r-cran-rjson fits your needs - we ported all our 
>> work across to r-cran-json with minimal difficulty.

Scott Draves, author of Beaker Notebook, just now discovered that no, 
the libjson used by RJSONIO is a *different* one than the badly licensed 
one.  For starters, it is C++ code, not C...

Homepage for this libjson is http://sourceforge.net/projects/libjson/


> Thanks a lot!
>
> I have now made upstream aware of the problem: 
> https://github.com/twosigma/beaker-notebook/issues/2758

I made upstream of _Beaker_ aware.

Had I only made upstream of RJSONIO aware, perhaps they'd pointed out 
our mistake long ago.  Oh well...


 - Jonas

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Message #19 received at 802263-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.pro>

To: 802263-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: closing duplicate

Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 07:54:10 +0200

closing duplicate

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