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-The Parabola Social Contract is the commitment that we, the Parabola
-project, make to the Free Software community in general and our users in
-particular. It is because of this that our social contract will always
-follow the philosophy of Free 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).
+The Parabola Social Contract is the commitment that we, the Parabola project,
+make to the Free Software community in general and our users in particular.
+It is because of this that our social contract will always follow
+the philosophy of Free 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 Free Software**: Products of the Parabola project
- follow the [GNU Free System Distribution
- Guidelines](http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
- They do not include or recommend non-Free software or documentation
- and do not provide any type of support for the installation or
- execution of non-Free software. This includes: proprietary software,
- binary only firmware or binary blobs.
+1. **Parabola is Free Software**: Products of the Parabola project follow
+ the [GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines](http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html).
+ They do not include or recommend non-Free software or documentation and
+ do not provide any type of support for the installation or
+ execution of non-Free software. This includes:
+ proprietary software, binary only firmware or binary blobs.
2. **Parabola is Free Culture**: All documentation and cultural works
- included in products of the Parabola project are [Free
- Culture](http://freedomdefined.org/Definition), with the exceptions
- of: non-modifiable license texts, works under the GNU Free
- Documentation License with invariant sections, and works of opinion.
+ included in products of the Parabola project are [Free Culture](http://freedomdefined.org/Definition),
+ with the exceptions of:
+ [licenses for works stating a viewpoint](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OpinionLicenses),
+ [invariant sections](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt#SEC1) and
+ [cover texts](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl-howto-opt#SEC2).
All documentation and cultural works created by or for Parabola are
Free Culture, with no exceptions.
3. **Parabola and other distributions**: Parabola's objective is to
- support the Free Software Movement, so we only need to compete
- against non-Free software; other Free Software projects are to be
- cooperated with, not competed with. Parabola strives to support
- other Free Software projects as best we can and any information from
- our project is available for anybody who needs it. That includes our
- packages and repositories.
-4. **Parabola and its community**: Parabola's community is democratic
- in its essence, so the community is to be included whenever there is
- a need to make a decision. We encourage community participation in
- the development of the project.
-5. **Parabola and Arch**: Parabola will produce an operating system
- that is a Free version of [Arch (the
- GNU/Linux distribution)](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 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.
+ support the Free Software Movement,
+ so we only need to compete against non-Free software;
+ other Free Software projects are to be cooperated with, not competed with.
+ Parabola strives to support other Free Software projects as best we
+ can and any information from our project is available for
+ anybody who needs it.
+ That includes our packages and repositories.
+4. **Parabola and its community**: Parabola's community is democratic in
+ its essence through [consensus democracy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_democracy),
+ so the community is to be included whenever there is a need to
+ make a decision.
+ We encourage community participation in the development of the project.
+5. **Parabola and Arch**: Parabola will produce an operating system that
+ is a Free version of [Arch (the GNU/Linux distribution)](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 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.