- Stet (software)
stet is a
free software package for gathering comments about a text document via a webpage. The initial version was developed from late 2005 until mid-2006 by theSoftware Freedom Law Center as a service to its client, theFree Software Foundation (FSF). The software was built to facilitate public consultation during the Version 3 draft process of theGNU General Public License .To comment on a document hosted in stet, the user must select a few words or a sentence from the text and "anchor" their comment to that specific text. This requirement, it was hoped, would increase the specificity and relevance of comments. Also, all the previous comments are visible to each new user. Heavily commented-on parts are highlighted by light to dark color-coding of the text according to the number of the comments.
stet is implemented in
JavaScript , XSLT andPerl , using parts ofRequest Tracker . The initial development was managed byBradley M. Kuhn , CTO of the SFLC, and implemented byOrion Montoya who was on a one-year contract with the SFLC. The only known deployment of stet to date is available at the GPLv3 Draft Process site, [http://gplv3.fsf.org/ gplv3.fsf.org] .On
21 November 2007, Kuhn announced that SFLC released stet under theAffero General Public License [cite web
url = http://www.softwarefreedom.org/technology/blog/2007/nov/21/stet-and-agplv3/
title = stet and AGPLv3
accessdate = 2007-11-22
author = Bradley M. Kuhn
last = Kuhn
first = Bradley
authorlink =
date = 2007-11-21
publisher = Software Freedom Law Center] , making stet the first program known to have been used in the generation of its own software license.This design is fairly unique, and
Eben Moglen of theSoftware Freedom Law Center has high hopes for it:References
External links
*http://gplv3.fsf.org/wiki/index.php/Comment_system Documentation
*http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments/source/ stet source code
*http://gplv3.fsf.org/comments - the GPLv3 webportal which uses stet
*http://code.softwarefreedom.org/projects/stet - Software development site for stet
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