FSF asks web devs to label JavaScript code | Linux Today

FSF asks web devs to label JavaScript code

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 14, 2012

[ 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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Web Webster

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