Switch to other json lib (openjson) instead of org.json due to licence clause in original

[Siedlerchr]

Hi,
first of all thanks for pushing unirest further. Unfortunately you still have the dependency the unfree org.json dependency. The problem is that the library org.json constains the line
The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. which makes it non-free and which means it' cant be used on debian or apache projects.
The author is not going to change the clause.
Further reading:
https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
https://lwn.net/Articles/707510/
stleary/JSON-java#331 (comment)

[ryber]

hrm, I'm sympathetic to this but it raises many problems for this project. One of the requirements I've accepted is to make sure this project remains as backwards compatible as possible. I didn't make the original choice of org.json (I could have gone with Jackson or GSON) so it seems the choice to resolve this would be:

1. Switch to an entirely different library which would cause major upgrade problems for anyone dependent on it.
2. become dependent on a cleanroom clone like the one you suggest, however, seeing as how org.json is widely used having two jars with two different implementations of org.json.JSONObject hanging around on the classpath is also a major problem. I suppose if one of the re-implimentations just changed the namespace slightly (org.evil.json) that might be enough.

the OpenJson library you suggest also looks to be a one and done. There haven't been any commits in two years.