Re: New web site

"John Levine" <[email protected]> 21 May 2026 16:42:06 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.general
Organization	Taughannock Networks
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

It appears that Jeffrey Walton  <[email protected]> said:
>On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 2:42 PM Nicolas Giard <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> There is no rationale for blocking javascript on the rfc-editor.org website (or ietf websites in general).
>> Absolutely zero third-party scripts or resources are being loaded. We even self-host our fonts instead of using Google Fonts.
>
>My understanding of the issue is, some folks do not want to use
>non-free software needed for Javascript nowadays.  I guess one of the
>root causes is, there's no [high quality?] free software
>implementation of a Javascript engine. 

The V8 Javascript engine used in node.js and all of the Chromium
browsers has a 3 clause BSD license.  The SpiderMonkey engine
in Firefox has a Mozilla Public License.

They're not GPL, but so what?

R's,
John