"BSON" stands for "binary JSON" - a binary storage format that is JSON inspired.
This is the C++ implementation, developed by http://www.10gen.com/ for http://www.mongodb.org/. This distribution merely rips it out of the mongodb repository into its own.
Other BSON implementations are available for most languages at http://bsonspec.org.
Note that this is not yet ready for production. While all the majority of the code has been thoroughly tested in the mongodb distribution, this fork is not yet proved stable.
The test application no longer has build code set up, because of issues with linking different std libs on mac.
The current state is unknown, though it builds on mac and linux.
The build system here uses CMake.
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
To install the library and headers in /usr/local, just run:
make install
You want to link against the library, and then:
#include <bson/bson.h>
Check out the headers, particularly bson.h. The project is not fully well setup though, so you may have to include other headers for now.
All files in the src directory, for the library, are Apache 2.0 licensed.
All files but md5.c/h in the lib directory are Apache 2.0 licensed. lib/md5.* are zlib licensed.
The files in test are GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE VERSION 3