diff --git a/dev-java/json/Manifest b/dev-java/json/Manifest
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+DIST 20150729.zip 52114 SHA256 62ecc38b4b86a2d864123f1d68ec9e898e250ea2d4c0798fdff52ba79db52c38 SHA512 ad21ce236b9df04482e039e57a16edec4018214aa6e00379573dc7c6977062c759aa21084b70540d35656ebcdb5eaa6525defb88e281ee0e4e7277e32f22755c WHIRLPOOL 393a81436e9441b7f0b6eeacf45323c306ffc623c15bb786c46431893318c128e4ab48b4ac610480897673ced33e7706a65a68107d42be0b58a65379db886624
diff --git a/dev-java/json/json-20150729.ebuild b/dev-java/json/json-20150729.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI="5"
+JAVA_PKG_IUSE="doc source"
+
+inherit java-pkg-2 java-pkg-simple
+
+DESCRIPTION="Java implementation of the JavaScript Object Notation"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.json.org/java/"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-java/archive/${PV}.zip"
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="test"
+
+DEPEND=">=virtual/jdk-1.7"
+RDEPEND=">=virtual/jre-1.7"
+
+S="${WORKDIR}/JSON-java-${PV}"
+JAVA_SRC_DIR="src"
+
+java_prepare() {
+	chmod a-x *.java || die
+	mkdir -p src || die
+	mv *.java src || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	java-pkg-simple_src_install
+	dodoc README || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-java/json/metadata.xml b/dev-java/json/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<herd>java</herd>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+		JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a lightweight data-interchange format.
+	</longdescription>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="github">douglascrockford/JSON-java</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+	<maintainer>
+		<email>chewi@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer>
+		<email>monsieurp@gentoo.org</email>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>