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| == Summary ==
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| This document defines "Free Network Services" as network services which run on free software, allow users to export all of the information available to them, have a transparent privacy, and do not retroactively reduce users' restrictions to the access of their data.
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| == Preamble ==
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| Social and technological advances make it possible for a growing part of humanity to ''access, create, modify, publish and distribute'' various kinds of information using network services such as social media sites, collaborative web apps, and software as a service.
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| As these network services grow to enable the democratic flow of knowledge and ideas, the more potential they have to be tools for empowerment, but the more these service employ non-free software and disregard the privacy of users, the more potential they have to be tools for control and manipulation.
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| To ensure the graceful functioning of this ecosystem, network services should be '''free'''.
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| == Identifying Free Cultural Works ==
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| This is the ''Definition of Free Network Services'', and when describing such a service, we encourage you to make reference to this definition, as in, "This is a free network service, as explained in the ''Definition of Free Network Services''."
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| == Defining Free Cultural Works ==
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| In order to be considered free, a work ''must'' be using free software.
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Revision as of 12:29, 28 October 2011
I suoppse that sounds and smells just about right.