FSF asks web devs to label JavaScript code

[ Thanks to Amy Bennett for this link. ]

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is promoting a new program that asks web developers to insert license tags within JavaScript instances so that web page visitors will be able to more easily identify non-free JavaScript content and thus avoid what FSF President Richard M. Stallman called in 2009 "the JavaScript trap."

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