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The point is to know that you are running free software. If it's free and has a free license, then yes, it's easy to be considered free. Free. If it's trivial, you need not apply a license. Trivial. (You may disagree with their standard of trivial vs non-trivial, but if your objection is they set the bar too low, then you missed the point.)

Non-trivial and non-free? Not good for you young one, tread carefully. That is the point and it's obviously not clear, from reading this comment thread (I also didn't get it at first) but, that is clearly a gray area where free software activists/advocates could draw a line and shield themselves by saying "won't execute."

Find a program you would objectively call non-trivial in JS that does none of the things listed in the philosophy doc. If you can, the heuristic algorithm needs a patch to make sure it gets its license checked by LibreJS prior to runtime.



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