diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Parabola_Social_Contract.md | 28 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Parabola_Social_Contract.md b/Parabola_Social_Contract.md index ff56e52..ce0ec1b 100644 --- a/Parabola_Social_Contract.md +++ b/Parabola_Social_Contract.md @@ -1,33 +1,33 @@ The Parabola Social Contract is the commitment that we, the Parabola -project, make to the libre software community in general and our users -in particular. It is because of this that our social contract will -always follow the philosophy of libre knowledge. All amendments to this -social contract must be faithful to the spirit of the [Free Software +project, make to the Free Software community in general and our users in +particular. It is because of this that our social contract will always +follow the philosophy of Free knowledge. All amendments to this social +contract must be faithful to the spirit of the [Free Software Movement](https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software). -1. **Parabola is libre software**: Products of the Parabola project +1. **Parabola is Free Software**: Products of the Parabola project follow the [GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines](http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html). - They do not include or recommend non-libre software or documentation + They do not include or recommend non-Free software or documentation and do not provide any type of support for the installation or - execution of non-libre software. This includes: proprietary - software, binary only firmware or binary blobs. + execution of non-Free software. This includes: proprietary software, + binary only firmware or binary blobs. 2. **Parabola and other distributions**: Parabola's objective is to support the Free Software Movement, so we only need to compete - against non-libre software; other libre software projects are to be + against non-Free software; other Free Software projects are to be cooperated with, not competed with. Parabola strives to support - other libre software projects as best we can and any information - from our project is available for anybody who needs it. That - includes our packages and repositories. + other Free Software projects as best we can and any information from + our project is available for anybody who needs it. That includes our + packages and repositories. 3. **Parabola and its community**: Parabola's community is democratic in its essence, so the community is to be 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**: Parabola will produce an operating - system that is a libre version of the GNU/Linux system "[Arch + system that is a Free version of the GNU/Linux system "[Arch Linux](http://www.archlinux.org/)" and possibly other Arch-based systems. We will provide repositories and installation - media without any non-libre software. All Parabola operating systems + media without any non-Free software. All Parabola operating systems will be backward compatible with the system they are based on, as to help liberate already working installations. We will respect the design philosophies of the systems ours are based on, to reduce |