Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

[Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 10/16/2015 08:53 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 10/16/15 6:20 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> On Thursday, 15 October 2015 at 22:13:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> On Thursday, October 15, 2015 14:51:58 Johannes Pfau via
>>> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>>>> BTW: Is there a reason why the code is GPL licensed? I understand
>>>> that people might want to use more restrictive licenses, but isn't
>>>> LGPL a better replacement for GPL when writing library code? Doesn't
>>>> the GPL force everybody _using_ fast.json to also use the GPL license?
>>>>
>>>> See: http://stackoverflow.com/a/10179181/471401
>>>
>>> I think that you might be able to link code with various other
>>> compatible, open source licenses against it, but you definitely can't
>>> link any proprietary code aganist it.
>>
>> Yes, you can. GPL only affects distribution of executables to third
>> party, it doesn't affect services. Maybe you are thinking of AGPL, which
>> also affects services. But even AGPL allows internal usage.
>>
>
> No, you cannot link against GPL library without making your code also
> GPL. "Services" I don't think have anything to do with this, we are
> talking about binary linking.
>

This is the real reason I'm not a huge fan of *GPL. Nobody can 
understand it!