[libvirt] JSON license is non-free - how are we affected?

[Paolo Bonzini]

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