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Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat
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bill-auger |
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Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat |
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Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:55:51 -0500 |
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On 02/22/2018 02:56 PM, David Hedlund wrote:
> On 2018-02-22 09:22, Ivan Zaigralin wrote:
>> GPL-licensed code is not necessarily free. An obfuscated source is
>> unmaintainable regardless of the license, so two freedoms are taken
>> away: the freedom to study, and the freedom to run modified versions.
>> LibreJS is unable to detect obfuscated code.
>
> Thank you. This is a bug, can you please file a bug report to
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=librejs ?
david - ivan was not reporting any bug that could be fixed - he was
saying that it is impossible for libreJS to determine if a script is
obfuscated or the original source - if the only available version of the
script is obfuscated then the GPL does not apply because all
requirements are not satisfiable - for this reason, any yet unseen
obfuscated script should be considered non-free regardless of it's
reported license
the only way libreJS can accurately deem a script to be free is either
if it is an original non-obfuscated source that matches identically to a
previously cataloged copy that has a verified license or an it is an
obfuscated script that matches identically to a previously cataloged
copy of an obfuscated script which has been previously verified to have
been produced from the original source that has a verified license -
beyond that, i think the halting problem would need to be solved first
just as you do for the FSD, this would require a human to verify the
reported license of each and every yet un-cataloged script then either
shipping with libreJS checksums for all known scripts on earth as a
white-list or having every script that every user downloads sent to a
central server for verification which would be as much of a privacy
concern as the script itself - also it should be clear from that any
such catalog would be incomplete at best, especially at the rate the web
changes
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- [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, David Hedlund, 2018/02/21
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, brn, 2018/02/21
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, Julie Marchant, 2018/02/21
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/02/22
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, bill-auger, 2018/02/22
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/02/22
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, bill-auger, 2018/02/22
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, Julie Marchant, 2018/02/22
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, David Hedlund, 2018/02/22
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat,
bill-auger <=
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, David Hedlund, 2018/02/26
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, bill-auger, 2018/02/27
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/02/27
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, bill-auger, 2018/02/27
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, bill-auger, 2018/02/27
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, bill-auger, 2018/02/27
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/02/28
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, Narcis Garcia, 2018/02/22
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, Ivan Zaigralin, 2018/02/22
- Re: [Bug-gnuzilla] GNU LibreJS won't be removed from GNU IceCat, Narcis Garcia, 2018/02/22