Re: GFDL holds the answer about fancy javascript (was: gnuradio project..)

[Filip Brcic]

Дана субота, 04. март 2017. у 00.09.14 CET, Richard Stallman написа:
> However, why not have a fall-back search facility for text-based
> browsers, that works without graphics or Javascript?  Even if it looks
> clunky, it is better than nothing.

Naturally. Doxygen also supports server-side search written in php, as long as 
the server can support php (which most can), it shouldn't be a problem to make 
the search non-javascript based as well.

> The ethical issue in this area is that all Javascript code sent to the
> user must be free.

That is, at the moment, partially true. Doxygen's JavaScript is part of 
Doxygen which is under GPL-2, but there are no headers in the JavaScript files 
saying so. Also, having JS files in GPL-2 would, basically, disable anyone from 
using Doxygen for generating documentation in a program with some different 
license without the program itself becoming GPL-2 as well.

I believe Doxygen should clarify the licenses. Otherwise, one could argue that 
any program/library that ever used Doxygen to generate documentation is now 
GPL-2 or later.

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