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[Bug-librejs] compliance |
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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:55:35 -0400 |
Hi!
Several years ago as a volunteer for Richard Stallman's personal
homepage, I wrote a search engine for the site:
http://stallman.org/site-search/index.html
Which I still maintain. Recently it was brought to my attention that
the search results page (you have to do an actual search to get there),
fails libreJS because there is no included license.
I installed libreJS on firefox and tested using a local mirror of the
site. Initially, there was a small librejs icon in the browser frame
that I could click for more information and the offence was attributed
to PrevNext.js. I added licence info to the file like this:
/*
@source: http://www.stallman.org/site-search/js/PrevNext.js
@licstart Copyright (C) 2010, 2013 Mark Eriksen
The JavaScript code in this page is free software: you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GNU GPL) as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version. The code is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU GPL for more details.
@licend
*/
But the problem persisted, perhaps because the offending line
reported by librejs seemed to be an "onkeypress()" event that was in the
html source's <body> tag and not PrevNext.js, so I added the same
comment in the page (template) header.
At this point I had invoked firebug, and since then (and after stopping
and restarting the browser, enabling and disabling librejs, etc), the
information icon has disappeared -- only the large tab appears, which
says nothing about the cause of the problem. This makes solving it
somewhat like playing darts blindfolded. There are only two files in
play, the html source and PrevNext.js, both of which had the licence
comment above in.
I think it is important that RMS's homepage comply with
librejs, and in order make that so perhaps I need to understand
better how librejs works and what will pacify it. My principle
questions right now are:
- Does it check the @source url?
- If so what does it expect to find there?
For PrevNext.js (which is not obfuscated or compacted), I simply used
the address of PrevNext.js itself. However, the html source is
dynamically generated, so I used a dud @source address there for my
first test. This is the point at which the librejs icon disappeared,
and before I fool around any further, I thought I should just ask
directly what is required.
It would be much appreciated if someone could assist me in getting
everything straightened out. Note that I have currently not added
licensing comments or made any other changes to the live site, since I
would like to see this work properly on my local mirror first.
Probably the easiest and best thing would be if someone could look at
an html page from a search response and the associated PrevNext.js, and
simply explain to me what needs to be done.
Sincerely,
Mark Eriksen
--
"Enthusiasm is not the enemy of the intellect." (said of Irving Howe)
"The angel of history[...]is turned toward the past." (Walter Benjamin)
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