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
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).
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
    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**: Parabola 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.