[OSM-talk] Freeing JavaScript on the OSM Homepage?

[Peter Wendorff]

Hi unaware,

there is an open issue [1] about that already since some months,
but you have to be calm and wait for it to happen - or help on your own 
by submitting a pull request for a (partial) solution.

regards
Peter

[1] https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/issues/879


Am 20.01.2016 um 19:37 schrieb unaware at sigaint.org:
> Dear community,
>
> I noticed some issues on the JavaScript of the OSM Homepage. Explicitly, I
> am refering to
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/application-493a26542d1a58f893bae08f4aa9910495c3a14cfc60db9be9b878202547a7c1.js
> and
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/assets/index-31bba8593ce3fd4ccd6c585180f31149973b722e3839d9a1e294fdc406c86b6e.js
> .
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> 1. This "code" is unreadable and therefore can not be considered as free
> software, even if it says being licensed under a free license.
> 2. Some of the licensing just says "MIT license" without giving a link to
> the full license. This term is according to
> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html unclear.
>
> I am explicitly missing links to the license at some parts of the "code"
> and a link to a source code that is readable and trivial and does the same
> as this "code", that can be edited and shared.
>
> I assume most of you heared about the free software foundation and it's
> goals and (mostly) identify with them? One of their goals is to free
> JavaScript, see:
> https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html
> https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/free-your-javascript.html
>
> Question: has this been discussed already? What do you think of the goal
> to free JavaScript for OSM? And who is able to do that? Personally I would
> love to help if I were a programmer being able to do that...
>
> Best regards
>
> unaware
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