[okfn-discuss] Disqus and permission culture on OKFn sites

Mon Jan 14 12:37:10 UTC 2013

P. S. it seems even with disqus we still have spams

http://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/08/consequences-risks-and-side-effects-of-the-license-module-non-commercial-use-only-2/#comment-764569780

I saw this example just now.

2013/1/14 Everton Zanella Alvarenga <everton.alvarenga at okfn.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> after seeing the comment bellow about a blog post on the central OKFn
> blog and asked myself why not anwering the the blog comments section,
> I wondered some things:
>
> 1) Do the comments made using discuss are free/open content? Have
> someone checked that? Sorry, I don't have time to read the terms of
> service <http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/466260-terms-of-service>
> now.
>
> 2) If this content is free, do we keep a back up of them on OKFn
> servers? Imagine the case the company that maintain Disqus closes.
>
> By the way, most OKFn site don't make explicit they use an open
> license (I have added explcititly on OKFn Brasil site), as I pointed
> out a few months ago
> <http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/okfn-help/2012-November/002097.html>.
> This only perpatuates the permission culture
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permission_culture>.
>
> Best,
>
> Tom

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Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom)
Open Knowledge Foundation Brasil
http://br.okfn.org