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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
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.
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