Re: [Bug-librejs] Supporting concatenated Javascript

[Ian Kelling]

Stephen Paul Weber <address@hidden> writes:

> These days it is very common to use a tool like webpack to concatenate
> much or all of the Javascript code for a website into a single (often
> also minified) file.  This file may thus contain many chunks of code
> under different licenses.  It seems like the magnet link format would be
> suitable for this, ala:
>
> // @license 
> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1f739d935676111cfff4b4693e3816e664797050&dn=gpl-3.0.txt 
> GPL-v3-or-Later
> // @source: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/.../blah1.js
> [ ... minified code ... ]
> // @license-end
> // @license 
> magnet:?xt=urn:btih:b8999bbaf509c08d127678643c515b9ab0836bae&dn=ISC.txt ISC
> // @source: https://archive.softwareheritage.org/.../blah2.js
> [ ... more minified code ... ]
> // @license-end
>
> LibreJS could then check if every line in a file was enclosed between a
> license/license-end pair and that all declared licenses are known as
> free.  The whole file would then be accepted or blocked based on this
> full analysis.
>
> Does this seem like the right format to use in this situation?  Would it
> be very difficult to extend LibreJS to support this use case?

FSF is currently working on updating the spec on how to comply and then
librejs to follow it. The goal is to be more robust and deal with these
kinds of issues. So, thanks for the suggestion. If you have any more
thoughts, please do share.

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