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[-] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Apparently it's (by default) everything that doesn't explicitly specify a license (especially a FOSS one) within the javascript code of the page, which is a ridiculously huge portion of JS on the internet.

What if they did this with HTML too? :p

[-] tarix29@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

It doesn't apply to HTML because HTML is fundamentally not code that runs, but rather a markup. It's just like how licensing a book under the GPL would be weird and unnatural, because it represents someone's words. JS is code that runs on your computer, just like any other program

[-] refalo@programming.dev -1 points 6 months ago

where is the line drawn though, and who gets to decide?

MANY people say "html code" even if you consider that wrong.

Is a shell script or python "code"? Because it doesn't directly translate to machine code?

See what I'm getting at?

[-] tarix29@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

There is definitely a grey area, but HTML is pretty far away from it. HTML doesn't "execute" and is very far from Turing completeness. You cannot write programs in it, and that is the key. Pure HTML is very much on the side of "rendering text" and not "running software." Once we start talking about things like LaTex though, the line gets a lot harder to see. Note that whether HTML is "code" is irrelevant. The point is that whether it's "code" or not, it is never a program.

Edit: typo in "grey"

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