Talk:Parabola Social Contract

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These used to be on the page, but there was outrage discussion on the IRC channel that this was promoting nonfree distros. These links are here because they are related social contracts that we should reference/consider/whatever.

1 Proposed changes to the contract

These changes were discussed back in July on the mailing list and IRC, but nobody but fauno really commented. ~ Lukeshu (talk) 15:59, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

1.1 Version proposed by Lukeshu in 2013

Title: Parabola Social Contract

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.

  1. Parabola is libre software: Products of the Parabola project will follow the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines 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-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: We will produce an operating system that is a Free version of Arch Linux, 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.

1.2 Comments

lukeshu and fauno both endorse the new version.

However, I favor normalizing between "Free" and "libre". ~ Lukeshu (talk) 16:03, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

I don't agree about 'Arch Linux' if we will use just 'Parabola', i suggest short names for both, eg: Parabola and Arch. ~ Emulatorman (talk) 19:50, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Another point, Parabola is following GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines and we should avoid name confusions as "Linux", also if we mean another distro inside our Social Contract. It will generate more confusions, please don't put it in our Social Contract. Since it's the official name of Arch, i suggest their short name for the Social Contract. See "Name Confusion" in https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html for further details. ~ Emulatorman (talk) 20:28, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

Also, it needs explains about supporting to Free Art Movement, therefore i suggest put it in our social contract to clarify those points. ~ Emulatorman (talk) 20:28, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

The software is not a product since i suggest use it for tangible things, and we shouldn't add Arch "Linux", it's Parabola/Free Software contract/distribution a not a Arch, FOSS/FLOSS or Open Source contract and distribution. ~ Coadde (talk) 21:36, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

I let you know i upgraded the first amendment based on the Free GNU/Linux distributions article ~ Emulatorman (talk) 21:42, 6 June 2016 (UTC)

1.3 New version proposed with Free Art support

Title: Parabola Social Contract

The social contract of Parabola is a commitment of the project to the Free Software and Art 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.

  1. Parabola is free software and art: Parabola project will follow the GNU Free System Distribution Guidelines. This means Parabola will include, and propose, exclusively free software and will reject nonfree applications, nonfree programming platforms, nonfree drivers, nonfree firmware “blobs”, nonfree games, and any other nonfree software, as well as nonfree manuals or documentation. Also Parabola supports free art, therefore it does not provide any type of support for non-free art.
  2. Parabola and other distributions: Parabola's objective is to support the Free Software and Art movement, so we only need to compete against non-free software and art. Parabola will strive to support other Free Software and Art projects as best it can and any information from our project will be available for anybody who needs it. That includes our packages, repositories and artworks.
  3. Parabola and its community: Our community is adhocratic 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: Parabola is a free version of Arch, and possibly other Arch-based systems. We will provide repositories and installation media without any non-free software and art. 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.

1.4 HTTPS links

The following domains support HTTPS links:

Fturco (talk) 14:27, 4 November 2017 (UTC)