FSF JavaScript guidelines picked up by Posteo Webmail

*This post is part of the Free JavaScript campaign, an effort to make
 the Web work without proprietary scripts downloaded by browsers.
 Learn more and get involved on the campaign page[1].*

Dear LWN,

Over the last few months, Webmail provider Posteo has been working
with the FSF to license and tag all JavaScript on their Web site and
Webmail system so that it is immediately identifiable as free
software. They have also done everything possible to ensure that it is
100% compatible with the GNU LibreJS browser extension, which
automatically blocks any potentially nonfree JavaScript making it easy
to browse the Web in freedom. This is an outstanding effort in defense
of the freedom of Posteo's users, and the company deserves recognition
for it. We hope others will follow their lead.

Posteo's[2] work on this project started when Richard Stallman
introduced the German company to the Free JavaScript campaign[1] in
2014. The campaign promotes free JavaScript through the adoption of
the FSF's human- and computer-readable JavaScript licensing standard,
while offering implementation help from FSF staff and the skilled
volunteers of its JavaScript Developers Task Force[3].

The collaborative process with Posteo actually uncovered some bugs in
LibreJS, which are now being fixed. Once they are fixed and the site
is re-tested, we will be able to announce Posteo's full compatibility
with LibreJS. We just didn't want to wait to publicly thank them for
what they have already achieved!

LibreJS's[4] sole maintainer Nik Nyby is looking for help maintaining
the growing project. To hack on LibreJS, start with the git
repository[5] and mailing list[6] or contact Nik directly at
<nikolas@gnu.org>. If you have knowledge of free software licensing or
JavaScript and want to help but are not interested in working on
LibreJS at the moment, you can lend your expertise to the campaign by
applying to the JavaScript Developers Task Force discussion list[3].

Stay tuned for more exciting announcements about Posteo and other
sites soon! And if you'd like to send a social media "Danke schön" to
@Posteo_de, we think they'd appreciate it. (Just make sure not to use
proprietary software[7] while doing it.)

Zak Rogoff
Campaigns Manager

Read this post online at
<https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-javascript-guidel...>.

[1] https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/freejs
[2] https://posteo.de
[3] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/js-devs-task-force
[4] https://www.gnu.org/soe/librejs/ftwar
[5] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/librejs.git
[6] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-librejs 
[7] https://fsf.org/twitter
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