Spark Cannot be used with software that requires jackson-databind 2.6+: RDDOperationScope

When using Spark 1.4.x or Spark 1.6.1 in an application that has a front end requiring jackson-databind 2.6+, we see the follow exceptions:

Subset of stack trace:
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com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException: Could not find creator property with name 'id' (in class org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope)
at [Source:

; line: 1, column: 1]
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonMappingException.from(JsonMappingException.java:148)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.mappingException(DeserializationContext.java:843)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerFactory.addBeanProps(BeanDeserializerFactory.java:533)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerFactory.buildBeanDeserializer(BeanDeserializerFactory.java:220)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.BeanDeserializerFactory.createBeanDeserializer(BeanDeserializerFactory.java:143)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createDeserializer2(DeserializerCache.java:405)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:354)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCache2(DeserializerCache.java:262)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache._createAndCacheValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:242)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.deser.DeserializerCache.findValueDeserializer(DeserializerCache.java:143)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.findRootValueDeserializer(DeserializationContext.java:439)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._findRootDeserializer(ObjectMapper.java:3664)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:3556)
  at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:2576)
  at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.fromJson(RDDOperationScope.scala:85)
  at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$$anonfun$5.apply(RDDOperationScope.scala:136)
  at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$$anonfun$5.apply(RDDOperationScope.scala:136)
  at scala.Option.map(Option.scala:145)
  at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:136)
  at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:111)
  at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.withScope(SparkContext.scala:714)
  at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.hadoopFile(SparkContext.scala:1011)
  at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$textFile$1.apply(SparkContext.scala:832)
  at org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$textFile$1.apply(SparkContext.scala:830)
  at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:150)
  at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:111)
  at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.withScope(SparkContext.scala:714)
  at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.textFile(SparkContext.scala:830)