Re: (was Re: Adding a description text property for a track) non-free javascript and ytdl

[Alexandre Garreau]

Le vendredo, 25-a de marto 2022, 5-a horo kaj 51:56 CET Yuchen Pei a écrit :

> There's parsing, but no execution, so that's ok.

but at what point do you go from parsing to execution? for instance if you only looked at arithmetic formulas, and added the numbers, to compute something that’s used to decrypt something, would that be only parsing, not execution? what if you did that with strings? i mean where does it begin? to me it begins from when it is recursive, hence has a pile and the ability to memorize moar data… but i don’t think all such programs «ought to be free» if, say, they’re small and automatically generated out of random (i mean, even if those, then, where not obfuscated, and had a free-software license… what would it change?)