[issue11844] Update json to upstream simplejson latest release

[Alexander Belopolsky]

Alexander Belopolsky <belopolsky at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

I am not sure anyone other that Bob Ippolito can contribute later versions of simplejson (or patches derived from those versions) to python.

ISTM that simplejson distribution is covered by MIT license [1] which is not one of the valid "initial licenses." [2]

I was trying to find what was the plan for maintaining json package in stdlib when it was initially included, but the only discussion I could find was a short thread [3] and issue #2750.  Neither seem to address the issue of future maintenance.
 

[1] https://github.com/simplejson/simplejson/blob/master/LICENSE.txt
[2] http://www.python.org/psf/contrib/contrib-form/
[3] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2008-March/012583.html

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nosy: +belopolsky, benjamin.peterson, bob.ippolito, brett.cannon, christian.heimes, georg.brandl, pjenvey, rhettinger

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