Orphaning json due to legal issues in newer versions.

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According to repoquery nothing depends on this package anymore so I orphaned it in rawhide. 
If noone takes it I'll deprecate and remove it in beginnning of April.

Alex

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Callaway" <spot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: json-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, scm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 4:54:49 AM
> Subject: [json] add a clarifying note to the spec file about the legal issues with newer versions of this source
> 
> commit 4cc8674a9a4de2a7e143aa5695004b6013abb75e
> Author: Tom Callaway <spot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Tue Mar 13 22:54:46 2012 -0400
> 
>     add a clarifying note to the spec file about the legal issues
>     with newer versions of this source
> 
>  json.spec |    9 +++++++++
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> ---
> diff --git a/json.spec b/json.spec
> index 1778124..099d627 100644
> --- a/json.spec
> +++ b/json.spec
> @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
> +# Note from Fedora Legal!
> +# Please, do not update this package to a newer revision.
> +# Later versions of the "json" upstream source have been relicensed
> +# under an idiotic license containing an unenforceable clause which
> +# makes the whole work non-free. Upstream thinks it is funny that
> their
> +# immature license causes heartburn for serious users, and is not
> willing
> +# to change it, hence, we're stuck here on the version 3 "apache"
> build.
> +# - 2012-03-13 - legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> +
>  # Copyright (c) 2000-2009, JPackage Project
>  # All rights reserved.
>  #
> 
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