diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c/0001-json_tokener-requires-INF-and-NAN.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c/0001-json_tokener-requires-INF-and-NAN.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d29d911
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c/0001-json_tokener-requires-INF-and-NAN.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From 9be71700eb580c815688584a64621a38867c3fdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: James Myatt <james.myatt@tessella.com>
+Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 15:57:14 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] json_tokener requires INF and NAN
+
+---
+Upstream-Status: Backport
+
+ json_tokener.c | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+Index: json-c-0.12/json_tokener.c
+===================================================================
+--- json-c-0.12.orig/json_tokener.c
++++ json-c-0.12/json_tokener.c
+@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
+ #include "config.h"
+ 
+ #include <math.h>
++#include "math_compat.h"
+ #include <stdio.h>
+ #include <stdlib.h>
+ #include <stddef.h>
+@@ -352,12 +353,10 @@ struct json_object* json_tokener_parse_e
+ 
+     case json_tokener_state_inf: /* aka starts with 'i' */
+       {
+-	int size;
+-	int size_inf;
++	size_t size_inf;
+ 	int is_negative = 0;
+ 
+ 	printbuf_memappend_fast(tok->pb, &c, 1);
+-	size = json_min(tok->st_pos+1, json_null_str_len);
+ 	size_inf = json_min(tok->st_pos+1, json_inf_str_len);
+ 	char *infbuf = tok->pb->buf;
+ 	if (*infbuf == '-')
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.12.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.12.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cfef03d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/json-c/json-c_0.12.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+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
+}