FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. When a common person does not clearly understand a legal agreement (being it a user agreement, being it terms of use, being it privacy policy), he or she can misunderstand what can or cannot be done. Hence, this person can misinterpret and breach the clauses in the agreement, basing his or her understanding on doubts and uncertainties, and thus, stop acting in a way or another because of fearing threats which do not exist.

It stands for Certainty, Assurance and Trust.

FreeLex provides you with a User-friendly Agreement Builder to create an easy-to-understand summary of your Network User Agreement or Terms of Use. These are known as User-Friendly Agreements.

What FreeLex seeks is to make it easier for users to understand the legal clauses into User Agreements or Terms of use. Thus, what Networks need to do is just to use the FL User-friendly Agreement Builder to have a visual and easy-to-understand summary of their own User Agreements or Terms of Use.

The legal code of the original User Agreement or Terms of Use of the Network is what really has legal value. The other (the user-friendly agreement made with the builder, or the extended version of it made by Networks which want the FreeLex approved seal) are not licenses. They are simply a handy reference for understanding in an easy way the real Legal Code. In other words, those are just a human-readable summaries of some of its key terms and clauses, and thus, what has legal value is the original User Agreement or Terms of Use originally created by the Network.

A Benevolent Dictatorship is created by a free (like in free beers) service, that lets the user do some things, but in which the user has no rights and cannot claim.

If the Network is giving the user a free service, lets the user do certain things, but grants no rights and lets no option for claims, then, yes it is.

A User Agreement or Terms of Use should be clear, accessible, human-readable and user-friendly.