> Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:44:07 +0200
> From: Joonas Kylmälä <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Apertium-stuff] Github hosted repositories
>
> On 12/11/16, mansur <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Just to clarify, what is "free JS"? How can the browser determine if some
> > JS file is free or not?
> >
> > I remember from Richard Stallman's interview that free JS contains
> > information with free license it is distributed under and that can be used
> > by browser. Is that it you are talking about?
>
> Yes, with free JS I meant JavaScript code that is released under a
> free software license.
>
> I think it would make sense that the browser would try to find from
> the comments of a JS file the tag "@licstart" and then analyze from it
> which license it is. I don't know how for example LibreJS browser
> plugin does this but maybe something similar (LibreJS is a plugin for
> detecting whether the JS is free).
>

Well, as javascript is source code, why would it be impossible to do a derivated
version of non free JS for his own use ?
The problem would just be not to have the right to share it.


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