# Jackson JSON processor Jackson is a high-performance, Free/Open Source JSON processing library. It was originally written by Tatu Saloranta (tatu.saloranta@iki.fi), and has been in development since 2007. It is currently developed by a community of developers. ## Licensing Jackson components are licensed under Apache (Software) License, version 2.0, as per accompanying LICENSE file. ## Credits A list of contributors may be found from CREDITS file, which is included in some artifacts (usually source distributions); but is always available from the source code management (SCM) system project uses.