The role of LibreJS and whether to draft a standard

[John Scott]

Hello,

In order for the JavaScript Trap to be mitigated in general, let alone amongst 
the general public, I have begun to think that LibreJS in and of itself is not 
a long-term solution. Documentation about freeing your JavaScript in a 
machine-readable form to the best of my knowledge is about how to satisfy 
LibreJS and is not browser or web engine-agnostic.

Unless LibreJS is to be regarded as an experiment, maybe we should make a 
standard that browsers and other addons can conform to. No outside solution is 
perfect, but SPDX identifiers are gaining adoption. Even if LibreJS came first, 
I wonder if it would help adoption to not reinvent the wheel.

There would need to be a way to specify the location of the source, or a field 
to affirm that the JavaScript is already in its preferred form of modification; 
but this already provides much of the same data.

To others whom are involved with LibreJS as users or developers, I would 
appreciate hearing your thoughts about the goals LibreJS ought to meet and how 
client-side non-free JavaScript ought to be remediated.

Sincerely,
John Scott

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