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

[Yuchen Pei]

On Sat 2022-03-26 14:53:31 +0100, Alexandre Garreau wrote:

> 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?)
>

Parsing json of video metadata and executing js code of decryption are
different, just like parsing static html and executing js are different,
just like read and eval in a repl are different.  I think that's pretty
clear.  Whether the decryption code is nonfree is a different matter,
and I cannot answer without seeing the decryption code.

Best,
Yuchen

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