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Your website uses nonfree javascript.
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I’m surprised that WordPress is GPL but its JavaScript is nonfree (probably obfuscated). I run a blog and my audience is mainly people who support copyleft licenses like the GPL, so I need to be consistent. LibreJS addon reports that the javascript is nonfree, so is it?
The other thing is, why do all these themes use *flash*? I can use free flash alternatives or block flash, that’s fine, but from a design standpoint it is embarrassing to have a page featuring mainly text, and have my readers’ browser ask them if they want to enable flash for that site. :/
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JavaScript is limited at WordPress.com because it is a shared hosting environment. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
If you’d like to us JavaScript or Flash on a site, you should setup your own hosting and use the open source WordPress.org software and go from there. With a setup like that, you can get full control to edit any and all of the code and the tradeoff is you have to maintain it. Here at WordPress.com, we maintain the install, the software, the plugins, the hosting, and all of that, but we also limit what types of code can be used or installed.
I would recommend reading http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/ to learn more about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org.
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I may at some point simply use the software provided by wordpress.org, but I might not if the javascript is nonfree. What I mean is free as in freedom, not in cost. WordPress is at present forcing users to run javascript in their browsers that appears to be nonfree, that is, unless LibreJS is in error.
For more insight, please read: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
I want someone to look into this. If the javascript really is nonfree, I’ll be taking my business elsewhere.
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Okay,
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22534
The issue has been brought up before. LibreJS is technically in error because it assumes wrongly that the scripts are nonfree due to the limited and apparently nonstandard way it looks for licenses. I pretty much agree with the decision reached, so my issue has been resolved. I won’t use LibreJS anymore.
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Ah, I see. I am not sure because there is a large number of different JavaScript libraries used here used in various plugins or themes and I am not an expert in all of them. I believe we make a good effort to use a GPL-compatible licensed software whenever possible, but it’s also possible not every single one meets a strict free requirement (I am not 100% sure, and I am not sure this is something that can be easily checked). OTOH, I believe WordPress.org is very strict about this. I would recommending asking at http://wordpress.org/support/ to double check because that is the best place to ask about WordPress.org directly, and it sounds like that will be the next place you will want to ask. Be very specific with your question up front and mention the explanation that you’re looking to find out if ever part of the WordPress open source code only ever uses Javascript that is free (as in freedom, not as in cost).
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