[okfn-discuss] co-ment text annotation and commenting system

Tue Feb 5 18:11:21 UTC 2008

 I am forwarding in a separate mail your technical questions to the developers 
(Raphaël Badin and Renaud Bernard) but here are some immediate answers :

- yes, co-ment works with both Firefox and IE (though it was the usual 
nightmare to solve some issues in IE).

- we have limits on size of text uploads that are due to the OpenOffice 
converter that we are using, but a Shakespeare play is definitely OK. In 
practice cutting and pasting gives most of the time better results than 
uploading from a word processor. I have just uploaded "As you like it" by cut 
and paste and turned to public viewing and commenting to public. You can test 
it at :
http://www.co-ment.net/text/104/

Philippe
Le Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:17:57 Rufus Pollock, vous avez écrit :
> Philippe Aigrain wrote:
[...]
> Wow, Phillipe this is amazing -- I'm particularly happy that the code is
> in python.
>
> I'll definitely be checking this out. We developed our original code [1]
> for use on http://demo.openshakespeare.net but have been hampered by the
> performance issues of using js to parse through large texts (e.g. a
> shakespeare play). One way to deal with this (that the author of
> marginalia has explored) is to use xpath locations but that apparently
> does not work on IE. How have you dealt with the performance issues and
> does co-ment work in both IE and Firefox?
>
>
> [1]: http://knowledgeforge.net/shakespeare/svn/annotater/trunk
>
> > We operate the service at :
> > http://www.co-ment.net
> >
> > The code is at :
> > http://www.sopinspace.com/products/co-ment/en?set_language=en&cl=en
>
> I'll definitely take a look. I'm particular interested by your copyright
> statement:
>
> <quote>
> It is to our knowledge one of the first instances of distribution of the
> full code base of a large Web 2.0 application service. In order to
> protect the source code against possible reproprietarization, we need to
> use a license whose copyleft clause is strong enough for guaranteeing
> that any operator of a Web service based on modified code has to
> redistribute the code for the full server and client application under
> the same license. We are making it sure by distributing the code under
> the Affero GPLv3 license. It is forbidden to run a Web service or other
> product or service in the classes and geographical regions covered by
> the co-ment trademark without the trademark owner's authorization. The
> future distribution of the source code will contain a trademark clause
> forbidding the licensee to use the co-ment trademark unless specifically
> authorized by its owner.
> </quote>
>
> As you point out pure GPL does not deal with the 'service problem'. In
> this regard I don't know whether you've seen the work we've been doing
> on an Open Service Definition:
>
>    <http://www.opendefinition.org/osd/>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus


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