Parabola_Social_Contract.md


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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
Movement](https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software).

1.  **Parabola is libre software**: Products of the Parabola project
    follow the [GNU Free System Distribution
    Guidelines](http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
    They don't include or recommend proprietary software or
    documentation and do not provide any type of support for their
    installation or execution. 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
    cooperated with, not competed with. Parabola will strive to support
    other libre software projects as best we 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
    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 libre 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
    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.