Re: Allow specifying the license with an HTTP header

[Julius Schwartzenberg]

On 02-10-2020 21:54, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> > An idea I came up with would be to standardize a new HTTP header, 
> > something along the lines of "content-license". It would seem 
> > appropriate to have such a header any time along a "content-type" header.
>
> The problem I see with this is that most JavaScript files served over 
> HTTP these
> days are composed on many different sources with different copyrights and
> licenses and original source locations.  So it's not just one header with a
> license and you're done.  It really needs to be inline in the file to 
> separate
> different-ly licensed parts from each other clearly.

Would the combined work not have a single license effectively?

Otherwise there could be something such as "content-license: mixed" or 
different freedoms could be expressed in separate independent headers. 
Only when all required freedoms are permitted, LibreJS would proceed 
with execution.