On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 05:29 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > [...] > > > Javascript programs are not necessarily bad, but if browsers > > temporarily install them silently without checking whether they are > > free, that systematically leads users to run nonfree software without > > knowing it. > > That raises an interesting point - there's no standard way to mark a > licence on a fragment of JavaScript, neither included in an HTML or > XML document nor if downloaded separately, at least as far as I can > tell. > > Is that something we (W3C) should take up? > > Liam > Yes, Do not store license information as tag because same file can be referenced in other website. The best solution is that, Every JavaScript Developer must be instructed to declare global variable (var LicenseInfo = [gplv3, mit] ) in their first line of JavaScript file. Browser will read this first variable and can decide whether it should process it or not. Absence of variable should be considered as public JavaScript file. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘
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