[daveloyall]

NB: I saw LibreJS in use months ago, in person at the FSF offices. I also got in an argument about it in which I brought up points that are echoed in comments on this page.

But, I was missing the point then. (Maybe I still am.)

I think the point of this thing is show web users a truth that they might not have thought about: that most javascript in the wild isn't licensed at all && they depend heavily on it.

To see this point clearly, try an experiment: install and activate the add-in. Now, try to do something on the web. Find a restaurant, buy airline tickets, comment on a post, author a post on your blog. Most likely, you can't do any of those things. That's the point. Even ardent free software supporters are depending on [large number] lines of non-free software every day.

[mattl]

If you don't want to run nonfree software on your computer, you can install this and it'll only allow JavaScript to run if its freely licensed or if its very basic and passes the rules of trivial code.

That's the point of it.

[daveloyall]

What's the point of that? You can hardly use the web with LibreJS active.

Today, users have a choice: accept non-free javascript, or don't use the web.

Which brings us to a goal: we must change the web so that the majority of javascript is Free Software.

Right?