Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] Freedom of html

[Svetlana A. Tkachenko]

Svetlana wrote:
> But is non-free markup a problem? Do we need to write a browser add-on which 
> detects web site licence and blocks it if it is non-free, and to ask everyone 
> to label their HTML/XML source with proper licenses?

This is probably a controversial idea. But I got no discussion. What do you 
think?

I am thinking the only proper way to use the web is by 1) warning the user when 
they're about to open a page whose markup or content is non-free (there are 
licence attribute for this in the standard) and 2) providing easy means to 
re-publish (distribute) those web pages which are free, such as by writing a 
gnunet addon for Firefox which provides publishing facilities (as well as 
search facilities to search for useful web pages in your peers' gnunet 
directories).

Both these tasks appear to lie within the IceCat project.

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Svetlana A. Tkachenko
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