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+# Copyright 2013-2019 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class JsonFortran(CMakePackage):
+    """A Fortran 2008 JSON API"""
+
+    homepage = "http://jacobwilliams.github.io/json-fortran/"
+    url      = "https://github.com/jacobwilliams/json-fortran/archive/7.0.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('7.0.0', sha256='9b5b6235489b27d572bbc7620ed8e039fa9d4d14d41b1581b279be9db499f32c')
+
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        return [
+            '-DSKIP_DOC_GEN:BOOL=ON',
+            '-DUSE_GNU_INSTALL_CONVENTION=ON',
+        ]