The social contract of Parabola is a commitment of the project to 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 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 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**: 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 and art. 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.