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    JavaScript that’s under a proprietary license (code that doesn’t give you the 4 freedoms)

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      What I don’t understand is how they can tell. There’s no mechanism (that I’m aware of) for signalling the licensing of deployed (minified!) JS code. The development code has licensing and versioning and so on but none of that makes it into production. As far as the client is concerned it’s all proprietary.

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        Technically that is what LibreJS is for. However, beyond LibreJS you can look at the code and see if it is similar to existing JavaScript frontends or libraries.

        It is a imperfect solution but it is better than just arbitrarily running programs in your browser or disabling JavaScript completely.