Highlight RMS Supporters

A cross-platform utility to highlight RMS support letter signers.

Table Of Contents

• Prebuilt Extensions/Userscripts
• Design
• Developing
• Installation
• Settings
• Bad Faith Criticism
• License
• Contributing

Prebuilt Extensions/Userscripts

Pre-built extensions and userscripts are provided under the dist directories.

Design

This browser extension/userscript fetches and parses a list of signers to the RMS support letter, and then uses local storage to store signers to highlight their names on Github or Gitlab.

Developing

In order to create a simple, cross-platform browser extension with code re-use, we have a single src folder and icons directory, which are then distributed with the platform-specific manifests to create the package. All the tools to generate these dist packages can be found under tools.

The following dependencies are required for building your own dist packages:

• Node.js
• Bash
• Rollup.js

Rollup.js may be installed by:

npm install --global rollup

Installation

Chrome and Firefox do not allow installing packages outside the app stores for security reasons. However, the preferred way is installing a Tampermonkey userscript.

First, if desired, build the desired extensions. If using the prebuilt files, skip this step.

# Build the Tampermonkey extension.
tools/make-userscript.sh

# Build the Firefox extension.
tools/make-firefox.sh

# Build the Chrome/Chromium extension.
tools/make-chromium.sh

Tampermonkey/GreaseMonkey

Click on the Tampermonkey or Greasemonkey extension icon, click "Create a new script..." or "New user script..." and copy and paste the contents of dist/userscript/main.js into the script, and save the contents.

Chrome

Go to settings (chrome://settings/ in the URL bar), click "Extensions", and activate "Developer Mode" in the top-right corner. Next, click "Load Unpacked" in the top-left corner. Then, navigate to dist/chromium and load the folder.

Firefox

Go to about:debugging in the URL bar, click "This Firefox" on the left tab, go under "Temporary Extensions", and click "Load Temporary Add-on…". Then navigate to dist/firefox, and load manifest.json.

This extension will be removed every time you reset Firefox or your computer, and therefore this is not a recommended solution.

Settings

By default, this extension/userscript updates the list of signatories daily. This may be changed under the settings menu for the extension/userscript.

Bad Faith Criticism

But what about GDPR/User Privacy?

This script stores no user data on any server, only locally, and is fetched from a public list of signatories. You are free to remove your name from the RMS support letter at any time.

Won't this condone harassment?

First, nothing compares to the serial harassment Richard Stallman has committed over decades and the toxic environment he has cultivated. But this script doesn't condone harassment: all it does it is highlight names on developer websites, and does not provide external contact information.

What about free speech?

Free speech does not protect you from criticisms of said speech. You are not entitled to a platform.

From xkcd, shared under CC BY-NC 2.5.

License

All code is dual licensed under the Apache 2.0 license as well as the MIT license. See the LICENCE-MIT and the LICENCE-APACHE files for the licenses. All icons are shared from their creator under a Creative Commons 3.0 Unported license.

This project will not use a GPL license. Thanks for asking.

Contributing

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in highlight-rms-supporters by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.