[Bug-librejs] Using CC-BY / unsupported license

[Raphaël Jakse]

Hello,

Sorry if these questions have already been discussed.

I like the idea of an automated way to detect free software licenses in 
Javascript and I'm willing to properly tag my code.

I use a generated Javascript file that basically contains a bunch of 
base64-encoded audio "files". These files are released under Creative 
Commons Attribution 3.0 license 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/> 
(http://gleitz.github.io/midi-js-soundfonts/). It seems that apart from 
CC0, Free Creative Commons licenses are not supported. Should these 
licenses be supported in LibreJS?


Also, since there are many licenses that are not supported in LibreJS 
and new licenses can appear at anytime, would it be possible to hint 
LibreJS like "this file is under a license that you may not know, but 
this is free software"?
Something like a @libre-license tag in the license block (I was about to 
propose @free-software-license, but well, one could argue that in my 
case, this is not really software… and @free-license seems ambiguous).

Optionally, this tag could specify a known / trusted address where the 
license is deemed free and that identifies the license, like 
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#ccbysa (this page speaks 
about version 4.0 of CC-BY-CA, does not mention version 3.0, the hashtag 
is not versioned) or 
https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution_Share-Alike_.28CC-BY-SA.29_v3.0 
(this page also lists licenses that are considered non-free by Debian).