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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).

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.
    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.