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diff --git a/Parabola_Social_Contract.md b/Parabola_Social_Contract.md index 18d761d..b86de2e 100644 --- a/Parabola_Social_Contract.md +++ b/Parabola_Social_Contract.md @@ -1,34 +1,36 @@ The social contract of Parabola is a commitment of the project to the -libre software community in general and its users in particular. It is -because of this that our social contract will always follow the +Free Software and Art community in general and its users in particular. +It is because of this that our social contract will always follow the philosophy of free knowledge. All the amendments to this social contract must be faithful to the spirit of the [Free Software movement](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software_movement). -1. **Parabola is libre software**: Products of the Parabola project - will follow the [GNU Free System Distribution - Guidelines](http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html) - so it doesn't include or recommend proprietary software or - documentation and it does not provide any type of support for their - installation or execution. This includes: proprietary software, - binary only firmware or [binary - blobs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob). +1. **Parabola is Free Software and Art**: Parabola project will follow + the [GNU Free System Distribution + Guidelines](http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html). + This means Parabola will include, and propose, exclusively free + software and will reject nonfree applications, nonfree programming + platforms, nonfree drivers, nonfree firmware + “[blobs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob)”, nonfree games, + and any other nonfree software, as well as nonfree manuals + or documentation. Also Parabola supports free art, therefore it does + not provide any type of support for non-free art. 2. **Parabola and other distributions**: Parabola's objective is to - support the Free Software movement, so we only need to compete - against non-free software. Parabola will strive to support other - Free Software projects as best it can and any information from our - project will be available for anybody who needs it. That includes - our packages and repositories. -3. **Parabola and its community**: Our community is democratic in its + support the Free Software and Art movement, so we only need to + compete against non-free software and art. Parabola will strive to + support other Free Software and Art projects as best it can and any + information from our project will be available for anybody who + needs it. That includes our packages, repositories and artworks. +3. **Parabola and its community**: Our community is adhocratic in its essence, so the community is included whenever there is a need to make a decision. We encourage community participation in the development of the project. -4. **Parabola and Arch Linux**: We will produce an operating system - that is a Free version of [Arch Linux](http://www.archlinux.org/), - and possibly other Arch-based systems. We will provide repositories - and installation media without any non-free software. All Parabola - operating systems will be backward compatible with the system they - are based on, as to help Free already working installations. We will - respect the design philosophies of the systems ours are based on, to - reduce friction from both developer and user viewpoints. +4. **Parabola and Arch**: Parabola is a Free version of + [Arch](http://www.archlinux.org/), and possibly other + Arch-based systems. We will provide repositories and installation + media without any non-free software. All Parabola operating systems + will be backward compatible with the system they are based on, as to + help Free already working installations. We will respect the design + philosophies of the systems ours are based on, to reduce friction + from both developer and user viewpoints. |