From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: First draft of the Emacs website Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:22:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: <565EE871.6030805@gmail.com> <87d1uproci.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <878u5cswx2.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87h9k0svqq.fsf@petton.fr> <87vb8fhobv.fsf@petton.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1449206585 13087 80.91.229.3 (4 Dec 2015 05:23:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 05:23:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: random832@fastmail.com, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nicolas Petton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 04 06:22:57 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1a4ipd-0004dw-5N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 06:22:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4ipc-0005n8-6G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:22:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37237) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4ipY-0005m6-UD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:22:53 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4ipY-0003s9-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:22:52 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55096) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1a4ipS-0003pm-3w; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:22:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1a4ipP-0000NK-Jf; Fri, 04 Dec 2015 00:22:43 -0500 In-reply-to: <87vb8fhobv.fsf@petton.fr> (message from Nicolas Petton on Thu, 03 Dec 2015 10:29:56 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:195847 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > and that license should be presented in a way that > > LibreJS can recognize. > Shouldn't LibreJS (a web browser extension, in no way a web standard) be > able to recognize GPL files by itself? The only way it can recognize that certain JS code carries a particular license is if the pages state the license in a mechanically recognizable way. With C and Lisp code, only humans check the licenses on those programs. Thus, when I worked out the way to state the GPL on source files, I did not try to make it mechanically recognizable. But LibreJS needs to recognize license notices mechanically, so we need to state the licenses in a format that is mechanically recognizable. LibreJS knows about some programs specially. For instance, it recognizes many versions of Jquery by checksumming the text. If you have a standard version of Jquery that it does not recognize, please report a bug in LibreJS. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.