Re: Please make your JavaScript free

On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK I got an email of how the report was generated and what site it was
> from. This looks to be a needing an inline under a floss license thing
> (or something).

I would disagree with that, and think we're good as it stands.

> /* This list is generated, don't edit here */
> $(function() {

This is part of the website itself, and clicking the Content License
links at the
bottom links to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Licenses#This_Website,
which clearly indicates Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
License 3.0 Unported license.

> bootstrap.min.js

* Licensed under MIT.

> jquery.min.js

* MIT license.

The reason the tool didn't recognize the latter two as the standard
jquery and bootstrap
is that due to security and availability constraints we are shipping
these javascript files
from our own domain, instead of using the CDN provided by these projects.

>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@openmailbox.org>
> Date: 17 April 2016 at 10:31
> Subject: Re: Please make your JavaScript free
> To: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com>
>
>
> On Sun, 2016-04-17 at 10:18 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
>> 1) We have dozens of websites so telling us which one you found a
>> problem with would be useful.
>> 2) We have all our javascript under GPL or MIT licenses that we know
>> of. If something crept in we need to know about it.
>> 3) Please cite exactly where you found the non-free Javascript and
>> how
>> you found it (in case it is a false positive )
>>
>> On 15 April 2016 at 15:34, John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@openmailbox.or
>> g> wrote:
>> >
>> > I could not use your site because it requires running JavaScript
>> > code
>> > which is not free software. Since a nonfree program disrespects
>> > the
>> > user's freedom, I decided not to run it.
>> >
>> > See http://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html for more
>> > information, and please make your JavaScript code free.
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>>
>>
>
> I'm sorry that I didn't attach a full report. The LibreJS extension
> should definitely generate a more verbose email. Here is a full report
> for start.fedoraproject.org
>
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