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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. 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.
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