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+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.
+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:
+    [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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy) and
+    [adhocratic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhocracy) as form of organization,
+    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.
+