For people who want to avoid running nonfree software, how can we tell if the software that a website gives us for accessing a forum powered by Discourse is free software? Without the JavaScript client software, the forum appears to be read-only, so I want to run the JavaScript on the website, but …

Maybe you are also interested in safe mode , which disables JavaScript customizations.

How can I tell if a particular distribution of the Discourse client is free software?

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