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+SUMMARY = "C bindings for apps which will manipulate JSON data"
+DESCRIPTION = "JSON-C implements a reference counting object model that allows you to easily construct JSON objects in C."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/json-c/json-c/wiki"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=de54b60fbbc35123ba193fea8ee216f2"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/json-c_releases/releases/${BP}.tar.gz \
+           file://0001-json_tokener-requires-INF-and-NAN.patch \
+          "
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3ca4bbb881dfc4017e8021b5e0a8c491"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "000c01b2b3f82dcb4261751eb71f1b084404fb7d6a282f06074d3c17078b9f3f"
+
+RPROVIDES_${PN} = "libjson"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    # Clean up autoconf cruft that should not be in the tarball
+    rm -f ${S}/config.status
+}