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The social contract of Parabola is a commitment of the project to the
-libre software community in general and its users in particular. It is
-because of this that our social contract will always follow 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 libre software**: Products of the Parabola project
- will follow the [GNU Free System Distribution
- Guidelines](http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html)
- 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob).
+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 movement, so we only need to compete
- against non-free 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 and its community**: Our community is democratic in its
+ 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 Linux**: We will produce an operating system
- that is a Free version of [Arch Linux](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.
+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.