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diff --git a/Parabola_Social_Contract.md b/Parabola_Social_Contract.md index 9524193..7c94a50 100644 --- a/Parabola_Social_Contract.md +++ b/Parabola_Social_Contract.md @@ -1,42 +1,45 @@ -The Parabola Social Contract is the commitment that we, the Parabola -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). +The Parabola Social Contract is the commitment that we, the Parabola 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 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-Free software or documentation - and do not provide any type of support for the installation or - execution of non-Free software. This includes: proprietary software, - binary only firmware or binary blobs. +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-Free software or documentation and + do not provide any type of support for the installation or + execution of non-Free software. This includes: + proprietary software, binary only firmware or binary blobs. 2. **Parabola is Free Culture**: All documentation and cultural works - included in products of the Parabola project are [Free - Culture](http://freedomdefined.org/Definition), with the exceptions - of: non-modifiable license texts, works under the GNU Free - Documentation License with invariant sections, and works of opinion. + included in products of the Parabola project are [Free Culture](http://freedomdefined.org/Definition), + with the exceptions of: + [licenses for works stating a viewpoint](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpinionLicenses), + [invariant sections](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt#SEC1) and + [cover texts](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt#SEC2). All documentation and cultural works created by or for Parabola are Free Culture, with no exceptions. 3. **Parabola and other distributions**: Parabola's objective is to - support the Free Software Movement, so we only need to compete - against non-Free software; other Free Software projects are to be - cooperated with, not competed with. Parabola strives to support - 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. -4. **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. -5. **Parabola and Arch**: Parabola will produce an operating system - that is a Free version of [Arch (the - GNU/Linux distribution)](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 liberate 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. + support the Free Software Movement, + so we only need to compete against non-Free software; + other Free Software projects are to be cooperated with, not competed with. + Parabola strives to support 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. +4. **Parabola and its community**: Parabola's community is democratic in + its essence through [consensus democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy), + 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. +5. **Parabola and Arch**: Parabola will produce an operating system that + is a Free version of [Arch (the GNU/Linux distribution)](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 liberate 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. |