On: You may finally use JSHint for evil

[easton]

Well, JSON is used in a serious way, in fact I doubt you can use most web applications (and many desktop apps too) without your machine parsing some json. And... https://www.json.org/license.html

[kelnos → easton]

That license does not cover the JSON spec; nearly all JSON parsers are not distributed under that license. I assume Crockford's original reference implementation of a JSON parser is released under that license, and not much else.

[umvi → easton]

But JSON isn't software, it's just a specification. Any text that matches the specification is JSON, whether it is binary, a string, printed on a piece of printer paper, etc. So what does this license mean, exactly?

[thephyber → umvi]

The JSON License was created to cover the original Crockford JSON parsing and linting libraries.

[Rebelgecko → easton]

My employer specifically forbids us from using the json.org license because it's not considered FOSS