Talk:Free Service software

The following was posted by Brianna Laugher on the autonomo.us mailing list.

Regarding point 7, "It should make data available in bulk for all users, so that third-parties can fork, republish, or just analyze the site-wide data.",

Does Free Service software oblige its users to license their data freely? (excluding passwords) Seemingly not, given point 4.

If not, then publishing data dumps that would allow forking not only doesn't make sense, but is really incredibly bad practice.

Maybe insert the phrase "freely licensed" before "data"?

Point 3 "It should make it easy to add a license for Free Cultural Works. Ideally, the software should ship with a Free Culture license as the default." Insert somewhere "for user-entered data"?

Point 10 "It should let users on one server interact with objects on another server." seems too broad. Servers with a similar service, e.g. all wikis, or all FooWikiEngineInstalls? All FooWikiEngineInstalls with the same license? or everything - micoblogging, blogging, wikis, etc?

I am wondering if there is some conflict here with the idea of privacy levels, or friends groups, with point 9, "security domains".

And on point 11 and 12 ('identities') I think Wikipedia fails. It also fails on point 8 ('import') but it doesn't make much sense on this point either.