Non-Free JavaScript

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

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

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