stet is a

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package for gathering comments about a text document via a webpage. The initial version was developed from late 2005 until mid-2006 by the

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as a service to its client, the

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(FSF). The software was built to facilitate public consultation during the Version 3 draft process of the

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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. The name ‘stet’ is a reference to the proofreading annotation meaning “let it stand”. This annotation is used to undo previous hand-written editing instructions in a manuscript, leaving the resultant text as originally submitted. stet is implemented in

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and

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, using parts of

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. The initial development was managed by

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, 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
gplv3.fsf.org
On 21 November 2007, Kuhn announced that SFLC released stet under the

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, making stet the first program known to have been used in the generation of its own software license. As of 2009, stet is not actively developed. co-ment is software with very similar functionality, but written in

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/ Django, and developed by Sopinspace, the firm of SFLC director Philippe Aigrain.co-ment: collaborative software inspired in stet
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DocumentationGPLv3 webportal which uses stetSoftware development site for stet
{{DEFAULTSORT:Stet (Software) Free network-related software Discontinued web annotation systems

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