<story><title>GNU LibreJS</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>connorshea</author><text>At GitLab we&amp;#x27;ve been working with some volunteers at the FSF&amp;#x2F;GNU Project to improve our score on the Ethical Repo Criteria Evaluation [1]. We&amp;#x27;ve got an issue open about LibreJS [2] specifically, as well as another to fix the other issue preventing us from receiving a B grade. We&amp;#x27;re also working on resolving some of the A grade criteria, albeit not all of them [3].&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s disheartening to see the FSF demonized here, as I&amp;#x27;ve been pleasantly surprised with the discussions I&amp;#x27;ve had with most of their members. In the last HN thread about the Ethical Repo Evaluation, people called their requirements ridiculous. I agree with that for some of the A grade criteria, e.g. the GNU&amp;#x2F;Linux requirement, but I think people are misunderstanding the purpose of the A grade, which is to signal that a site is &amp;quot;sufficiently free&amp;quot; and can be used to host the GNU Project&amp;#x27;s source code. This is partly the fault of the FSF having poor communication, of course.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to highlight a comment by an FSF Volunteer regarding our work on some criteria for the A grade, &amp;quot;Thanks for taking the time on this; I&amp;#x27;m very encouraged, and I&amp;#x27;m happy with any progress made. Again: since these criteria are for hosting of GNU projects, they&amp;#x27;re a bit more strict and won&amp;#x27;t be met by most services.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;GitLab CE is licensed under the MIT Expat License, not the GPL, and yet they&amp;#x27;re perfectly happy to work with us regardless. Outwardly they advocate for extreme ideas, but they&amp;#x27;re also willing to compromise.&lt;p&gt;Apologies if this is rambly at all, or comes off as &amp;quot;shilling&amp;quot; in any way, I just wanted to share my story of interacting with the FSF. Hopefully I can convince some people that they&amp;#x27;re not all living in caves yelling about how they&amp;#x27;ll never use non-GPL software.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;software&amp;#x2F;repo-criteria-evaluation.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;software&amp;#x2F;repo-criteria-evaluation.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab-ce&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;15621&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab-ce&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;15621&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab-ce&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;15678&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gitlab.com&amp;#x2F;gitlab-org&amp;#x2F;gitlab-ce&amp;#x2F;issues&amp;#x2F;15678&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>GNU LibreJS</title><url>https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aaronbrethorst</author><text>Apparently it adds a &amp;quot;Complain&amp;quot; tab to your browser when it detects offensive JavaScript: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;software&amp;#x2F;librejs&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;librejs.html#Complaint-Feature&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.gnu.org&amp;#x2F;software&amp;#x2F;librejs&amp;#x2F;manual&amp;#x2F;librejs.html#Com...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>