Stet (software)

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 the Software Freedom Law Center as a service to its client, the Free Software Foundation (FSF). The software was built to facilitate public consultation during the Version 3 draft process of the GNU 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 and Perl, using parts of Request Tracker. The initial development was managed by Bradley M. Kuhn, CTO of the SFLC, and implemented by Orion 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 the Affero 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 the Software 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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