Relax json dependency restriction in Ruby gemspec

[ManeeshProg]

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What does this PR do?
Relaxes the json dependency restriction in the Ruby gemspec.
Previously, the dependency was locked to <= 2.13.2, which caused unnecessary downgrades of the json gem in production environments.
This PR updates it to allow >= 2.13.0.

Changed this line in rb/selenium-webdriver.gemspec:

• s.add_dependency "json", "<= 2.13.2"

• s.add_dependency "json", ">= 2.13.0"

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PR Type

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Description

• Relaxed json dependency from <= 2.13.2 to >= 2.13.0

• Added Apache License 2.0 file to Ruby binding

• Added NOTICE file with copyright information

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Diagram Walkthrough

flowchart LR
  A["gemspec dependency"] -- "relaxed restriction" --> B["json >= 2.13.0"]
  C["Ruby binding"] -- "added" --> D["Apache License"]
  C -- "added" --> E["NOTICE file"]

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Dependencies	selenium-webdriver.gemspec Relaxed json dependency version constraint                              rb/selenium-webdriver.gemspec Changed json dependency from <= 2.13.2 to >= 2.13.0 Added comment suggesting complete removal of restriction +1/-1
Documentation	LICENSE Added Apache License 2.0 file                                                        rb/LICENSE Added complete Apache License 2.0 text Copyright assigned to Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) +202/-0  NOTICE Added copyright notice file                                                            rb/NOTICE Added copyright notice for 2011-2025 Software Freedom Conservancy Added copyright notice for 2004-2011 Selenium committers +2/-0

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Category	Suggestion	Impact
Possible issue	Remove invalid and unnecessary dependency Remove the dependency on the json gem, as the specified version ">= 2.13.0" is invalid and the gem is included in modern Ruby versions by default. rb/selenium-webdriver.gemspec [53] -s.add_dependency "json", ">= 2.13.0" #—or simply remove the restriction entirely, since json is part of the Ruby stdlib for most Ruby versions. + Apply / Chat Suggestion importance[1-10]: 10 __ Why: The suggestion correctly identifies that the specified json gem version ">= 2.13.0" is invalid and does not exist, which would break dependency resolution for users.	High
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[ManeeshProg]

Its A minor issue that is Having a 2 way deadlock. That is interfering with the json build version. So i kindly request the Mediators to take necessary action

[cgoldberg]

I don't know if this resolves the dependency issue, but there are problems with this PR:

• We don't want to add copies of LICENSE and NOTICE under the ./rb directory. If they are needed for packaging, they should be symlinks to the files in the root of the repo
• We don't want to commit the binary gem to the source tree