ES2015 features?

[Vladimir Sedach]

Hi Will!

> Yes. Please more detail on the licensing.

For the tl;dr I am going to quote Antonio Diaz:

> I think "open source" organizations (specially BSD) are
> wilfully destroying the long-term benefits for society of
> the GPL, and they are doing it for short-term benefits like
> popularity and greed

https://mikegerwitz.com/2014/03/Re-FreeBSD-Clang-and-GCC-Copyleft-vs.-Community.html

At 28c3 in 2011 Cory Doctorow spoke about a "coming war on general
computation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

>From my point of view, this scenario is being played out as Doctorow
has described it would. There is a large industry working on
replacing personal computers with user-hostile, locked-down mobile
phones, tablets, "Chromebooks," and home automation (now called IoT)
appliances, that subject people to constant surveillance and
intrusive advertising and behavioral modification regimes.

All of this is built using, and enabled by, permissively licensed
software, and the deficiencies of version 2 of the GPL. Bradley Kuhn
gave a good talk about some of these issues at LinuxConf Australia in
2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mnHebVSUb0

A decade ago, the hoped-for hypothetical reason for permissively
licensing Common Lisp packages, to encourage use and adoption of
Common Lisp, seemed like a plausible idea.

This has not happened. I don't see any point in continuing to compete
in the permissive license race-to-the-bottom anymore. The people who
whine about Common Lisp libraries are good at one thing: whining
about not getting everything handed to them for free. They are not
going to contribute, and there is no point in trying to please these
people.

All this is related to web development, JavaScript, and Parenscript
in a very direct and practical way:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html

What I see is that many things that were accessible as regular web
sites are now being rewritten as proprietary single-page HTML5 web
applications (some of them gated to only run on Google Chrome!), or
as proprietary applications available exclusively through Apple
iTunes or Google Play on iOS or Android (three layers of proprietary
lock-in…).

This is bad enough for me as an able-bodied and technically competent
person. A couple of months ago I attended a talk by Chime Hart on his
experiences as a blind computer user. This move to proprietary
JavaScript web applications has been a huge, unmitigated, ongoing
regression in Web accessibility over the past five years.

Everyone was happy with the demise of Flash on the web, but now we
have ended up in an even worse place. Flash use was limited to
certain bad actors. These bad actors just went on to co-opt web
standards (to the point that DRM is now a web standard), and spread
their user-hostile ideology and techniques into an "industry best practice."

To quote Anastasia Fedorova, "after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we
all ended up in the East."

Vladimir