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Open Source Twitter Competitor Emerges
ruphus13 writes "Twitter has had a lot of public woes with Open Source technologies like Ruby on Rails, and a lot of alternatives have sprung up in the micro-blogging world, but no one has managed to dislodge twitter in its usage or appeal. Now, an Open Source alternative by Identi.ca, backed by project Laconica has emerged. From the article, 'It supports OpenID for logins, is completely free software, and is designed to apply a Creative Commons license to all the traffic that it carries. It's also built to support the OpenMicroBlogging protocol, meaning that (at least in theory) it can attack scalability issues by federating together multiple autonomous servers. The underpinnings of Laconica include PHP, PEAR, and XMPP. You can download a tarball of the source, or check it out directly if you're using Darcs (there's also an unofficial mirror on Google Code, giving you Subversion access for a read-only copy).' The community will still need to work on this, if a true competitor to Twitter is to emerge. It is lacking APIs, and SMS integration. Oh, and millions of users!"
... one horse race ...
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I was wondering that too, on the site it says
"Unless otherwise specified, contents of this site are copyright by the contributors and available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0
. Contributors should be attributed by full name or nickname."
Which i would take to mean that it does specifically put a CC license on everything unless you specify otherwise.
I think it would be better for it to be copyright the poster first and CC opt in, since fair use (at least in the US) would cover any use of messages posted with the service given the limited length available.