As Jack pointed out, the F# Data library really only works with F# 3.0. If you can update the F# version, it will work and you'll get other benefits (like type providers).
If you cannot upgrade then you can probably just copy the file with JSON parser and runtime to your project and change a few things to support F# 2.0 (the licence allows that). The file you need is Json.fs.
I don't think we'd want to support 2.0 version (so far), but if the fix is easy, submit a pull request with the change and we can merge that to make this easier for others.