On Jan 6, 2009, at 6:57 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > Comment Important is a hard problem because it allows users to > attribute arbitrary words to other people. This is the reason no > "migrate" tool uploads comments -- no LJplatform allows a user to > upload comments attributed to someone else. > > I'm quite certain that Comment Import is the do-or-die adoption > feature for DWS. If you don't have it, the only sufficient motivation > to move to DWS for 99% of users will be the complete eradication of > their journals, i.e. they'll only move if LJ tanks.
[*snip*] We're still working out the legal issues surrounding copyright, control-of-content, and implicit licensing, which is what the potential sticking point for import of comments happens to be. (In other words: *you* can give us permission to import *your* content from LJ, because you're the owner of that content; you might not be able to give us permission to import *someone else's* content, aka their comments.) I, personally, am of the opinion that there's enough implied license in submitting a comment to someone else's journal that it shouldn't be a large liability, AS LONG AS we retain the ability for the 'owner' of the content to still have the same level of control/manipulation that they had over the content on LJ. (In other words, as long as you can still delete your comments even if they're moved, we should be okay.) I am not a lawyer, however, and it's a situation that doesn't exist in case law to the best of my research, so we're still holding off on making a final decision. However, the model that we're looking at, if it should prove to be a level of liability that we're okay in assuming, would be to import comments a). only directly from the importing site, not via downloaded export files (to prevent the person doing the importing from being able to edit the upload file, thus changing someone else's content), and b). appearing as OpenID identities on Dreamwidth after importing, allowing the person who left the content to log in via OpenID and delete their comment if they want to. IOW, if I've commented on xb95.livejournal.com as raha...@lj, and Mark then imports that entry and associated comments to Dreamwidth, the comment would appear as coming from rahaeli.livejournal.com, and I could log into DW with my rahaeli.livejournal.com OpenID and have exactly the same level of control over the content as I had on LJ. In conclusion, I need to be stopped from using the phrase "in other words". --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
