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Re: Grave ethical problem in MELPA
From: |
Chad Brown |
Subject: |
Re: Grave ethical problem in MELPA |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Aug 2016 22:27:02 -0700 |
> On 11 Aug 2016, at 21:37, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I'm told that the MELPA site requires nonfree software:
>
>> The navigational buttons do nothing while the rest of what would
>> show on the homepage without LibreJS deactivated is absent.
>
> This is unethical and works directly against what we say. Does anyone
> here know the site maintainers well enough to convince them to fix
> this?
>
> Please respond if you can try.
The melpa site includes two links at the bottom of the page, one to the source
of the page, and one to “Javascript license information”. The second one goes
to:
http://melpa.org/jslicense.html
This page is totally viewable in eww, and all of the licenses on it seem to be
compatible with the GPL according to:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html
That said, I imagine that there might be some troubles with LibreJS identifying
javascript libraries correctly; I’ve heard comments that suggest that LibreJS
is imperfect at this job so far.
I don’t use the melpa web site anymore myself, and I don’t have any particular
connection to the maintainers there myself.
Hope this helps,
~Chad