Re: The role of LibreJS and whether to draft a standard

[Michel Le Bihan]

Hello,

I think that JavaScript developers are becoming aware of the issue and
are adding licensing info in comments in there JS code. Many popular JS
frameworks and libs have license info, but not in a standard format.
Examples:
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue
https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lightbox2/2.11.1/js/lightbox.min.js
https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.5.1.slim.js (missing from the minified
JS)
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/popper.js@1.16.1/dist/umd/popper.min.js
https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.2/js/bootstrap.min.js
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philipwalton/polyfill/master/dist/polyfill.min.js
Even https://apis.google.com/js/api.js has license info.

`Released under the MIT license` seems to be a popular string. I think
that if a standard was introduce it, developers would adopt it. That
would allow LibreJS to better detect license info and would make many
sites usable with LibreJS.

Michel Le Bihan