You can also reverse engineer code, sniff your network traffic, and lots of other things with proprietary software, but that doesn&#x27;t make it free.<p>Also, there _is_ a practical impact on the JS you see on a particular site: the fact that you can debug it doesn&#x27;t mean you can change and redistribute it.<p>There are very real implications of having a piece of code released under a particular license and it&#x27;s hardly accurate to call these implications &quot;paranoia&quot;.