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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 libre 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 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.
2. **Parabola and other distributions**: Parabola's objective is to
support the Free Software Movement, so we only need to compete
against non-libre software; other libre software projects are to be
cooperated with, not competed with. Parabola will strive to support
other libre 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**: We will produce an operating system
that is a libre version of [Arch Linux](http://www.archlinux.org/),
and possibly other Arch-based systems. We will provide repositories
and installation media without any non-libre 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.
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