Re: [GMG-Devel] Survey requires nonfree Javascript

[Joar Wandborg]

My comment was regarding JavaScript in GNU MediaGoblin, if this is not
the discussion point, please find an appropriate channel for this
discussion and sorry for my confusion.

On 11/12/2013 08:07 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> Some of you people love to label people dont you?   First you label the first 
> poster as "unjustified" and now I am trolling.  Now that you have labeled me 
> as a Troll perhaps people will dismiss me instead of pay attention to a 
> potential problem with the code?
> 
> Who are people supposed to trust first?  LibreJS or some other organization?  
> You guys can do what you want but I am going with LibreJS, if it tells me 
> some code is blocked, there is a good reason for it. Have a nice day fellas.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Aaron Williamson [mailto:address@hidden] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:57 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [GMG-Devel] Survey requires nonfree Javascript
> 
> Pretty sure you're trolling here, but this is the untrue statement: "If
> 
> LibreJS is blocking something, it is likely non free." In fact, most of the
> 
> free Javascript in the world will be blocked by LibreJS, because the
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> license notation LibreJS requires is not yet widely used. So the only
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> conclusion you can reasonably draw when LibreJS blocks some javascript is
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> that the javascript does not contain the notation, not that the license is
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> unfree.
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> On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 10:51:15 -0800, <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> That is not true? That the developers should test the code with LibreJS
> 
>> before releasing it? If LibreJS has a defect, they should notify the
> 
>> developers of LibreJS I would think. If LibreJS is fine, then the new
> 
>> conventions should be followed. In the meantime, i would avoid taking
> 
> the
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>> survey.
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>>
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: Joar Wandborg [mailto:address@hidden] On Behalf Of Joar
> 
> Wandborg
> 
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:39 AM
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>> To: address@hidden
> 
>> Subject: Re: [GMG-Devel] Survey requires nonfree Javascript
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>>
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>> On 11/12/2013 07:33 PM, address@hidden wrote:
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>>> Can the developer do their own testing with LibreJS to make sure
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>> beforehand
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>>> that their code will not be blocked?   *If LibreJS is blocking
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> something,
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>> it
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>>> is likely non free.*
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>>
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>> Regarding the above emphasized sentence: That is simply not true,
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> LibreJS
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>> requires some brand-new commenting conventions that previously have not
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>> been
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>> necessary to designate make a JavaScript file free.
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>>
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>> All of our JavaScript and code is released under OSI-approved licenses,
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>> LibreJS is simply not clever enough to detect it at the moment.
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