Mr Crockford has apparently given the Eclipse Foundation permission to distribute jslint without the "no evil" clause. A DFSG compliant jslint can be downloaded from the Eclipse site: http://git.eclipse.org/c/orion/org.eclipse.orion.client.git/tree/lib/jslint/jslint-2011-01-09.js The jshint team are looking at whether they can rebase their code on it: https://github.com/jshint/jshint/issues/1234#issuecomment-58564429