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# Parabola GNU/Linux-libre Social Contract

Note: In July 2013, we discussed making some adjustments to the contract. However, not enough people commented for us to make the change. Please comment on the talk page.

The social contract of Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is a commitment of the distribution with the libre software 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.

1. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is libre software: it will follow the GNU free system distribution guidelines, so it doesn't include or recommend proprietary software or documentation and it does not provide any type of support for their installation or execution. This includes: proprietary software, binary only firmware or binary blobs.
2. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre and other distributions: Parabola's objective is to support the free software movement so we only need to compete against nonfree software. Parabola will strive to support other free software projects as best it can and any information from our project will be available for anybody who needs it. That includes our packages and repositories.
3. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre and its community: our community is adhocratic in its essence, so the community is included whenever there is a need to take a decision. We encourage community participation in the development of the project.
4. Parabola GNU/Linux-libre and Arch GNU/Linux: Parabola is the free version of Arch. We provide repositories and installation images without any nonfree software. We respect Arch's KISS philosophy (Keep It Simple, Stupid) and its developing process. In that sense, Parabola will always maintain retro compatibility with Arch so as to help free already working installations.

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