diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
index 69b513ea3ba3c8a1c929acb3dc1c874400a5e0b8..f4b64b5c3f47078ac219fd05b4b3e35e61fc899d 100644
--- a/NOTICE
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -421,9 +421,6 @@ Copyright (c) 2011, Terrence Parr.
 This product includes/uses ASM (http://asm.ow2.org/),
 Copyright (c) 2000-2007 INRIA, France Telecom.
 
-This product includes/uses org.json (http://www.json.org/java/index.html),
-Copyright (c) 2002 JSON.org
-
 This product includes/uses JLine (http://jline.sourceforge.net/),
 Copyright (c) 2002-2006, Marc Prud'hommeaux <mwp1@cornell.edu>.
 
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
index 99279a4ca8be901cdb5c3be63225014b24d49371..6e749ac16cac02c938e422e500eb45edbacb348b 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ jline-2.12.1.jar
 joda-time-2.9.3.jar
 jodd-core-3.5.2.jar
 jpam-1.1.jar
-json-20090211.jar
 json4s-ast_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-core_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-jackson_2.11-3.2.11.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
index f094b4a7e167ad653f188cbee8396e55237ca23f..515995a0a46bdda7c55055573441db99eafb86ae 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ jline-2.12.1.jar
 joda-time-2.9.3.jar
 jodd-core-3.5.2.jar
 jpam-1.1.jar
-json-20090211.jar
 json4s-ast_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-core_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-jackson_2.11-3.2.11.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
index 7f0ef98680a1554684408e68075ef7c7b5f7f104..d2139fd952406427b9b328a7d51c9d773a374344 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ jline-2.12.1.jar
 joda-time-2.9.3.jar
 jodd-core-3.5.2.jar
 jpam-1.1.jar
-json-20090211.jar
 json4s-ast_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-core_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-jackson_2.11-3.2.11.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
index 4a27bf3deecb6560e0112900d3842c61c6cac64e..b5cecf72ec35fdb66d38ba356523469caafb5c83 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ jline-2.12.1.jar
 joda-time-2.9.3.jar
 jodd-core-3.5.2.jar
 jpam-1.1.jar
-json-20090211.jar
 json4s-ast_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-core_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-jackson_2.11-3.2.11.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
index 151670a8e23e485676f385d85d82b1df8de8cd64..a5e03a78e7ea872ec0a29c59b50125cd55833302 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
@@ -116,7 +116,6 @@ jline-2.12.1.jar
 joda-time-2.9.3.jar
 jodd-core-3.5.2.jar
 jpam-1.1.jar
-json-20090211.jar
 json4s-ast_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-core_2.11-3.2.11.jar
 json4s-jackson_2.11-3.2.11.jar
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 04d2eaa1d3bac871908782dcf9411f32dc0108cd..8aa0a6c3caab96e8222abff26673ecd0a2cd0fc7 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1429,6 +1429,11 @@
             <groupId>jline</groupId>
             <artifactId>jline</artifactId>
           </exclusion>
+          <!-- Cat X license now; see SPARK-18262 -->
+          <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.json</groupId>
+            <artifactId>json</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
         </exclusions>
       </dependency>
       <dependency>