Re: Recommended way to use Asciinema

[Jeff Henriquez]

Hi Ole,

Minified code isn't a problem per-se, you can put a license notice on it during 
the build process (eg. 
view-source:https://www.obsessivefacts.com/js/main.min.js)

I looked at Asciinema and it's definitely a GPLv3 project 
(https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/blob/develop/LICENSE). If you want to 
self-host it in a LibreJS-compatible way you could always go through the build 
instructions from the GitHub readme and paste the GPLv3 license notice into the 
generated JavaScript files.

Keep in mind I'm not an official maintainer and there might be a better way so 
take my advice with a grain of salt!

Cheers,

—Henriquez

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On Friday, April 5th, 2024 at 4:56 PM, Ole Tange <tange@gnu.org> wrote:

> Asciinema (https://asciinema.org/) is a nice free tool to generate
> videos of terminal sessions.
> 
> It is a nice way of showing off a terminal tool such as GNU Parallel,
> and thus I have updated https://www.gnu.org/s/parallel to include
> this.
> 
> I can download dist/bundle/asciinema-player.css
> dist/bundle/asciinema-player.js dist/bundle/asciinema-player.min.js
> and host them locally with the recording. But it is unclear if
> recommended practice is that I use asciinema-player.js or
> asciinema-player.min.js It is also unclear how I should refer to the
> license for these.
> 
> Looking at asciinema-player.js it is clear it contains a binary blob
> (search for: wasm_code), but I feel convinced this is entirely
> generated by free software when building Asciinema.
> 
> Please advise on how to use Asciinema in a LibreJS compatible way.
> 
> It would be preferable if you included a way that only required write
> access to https://www.gnu.org/s/parallel (i.e. not requiring access to
> https://www.gnu.org/about/). Even better would be a general way that
> could be included in Asciinema, so the user could ask it to generate the
> required files.
> 
> 
> /Ole
> 
> PS: I tried sending to bug-librejs, but got:
> 550 Callout verification failed: 550 Unrouteable address