Hi,
Tails core contributors have adopted the Tails Social Contract which can
be found here:
https://tails.boum.org/contribute/social_contract/
The adopted text reads:
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# Introduction
The Tails Social Contract is a set of commitments that we as
contributors to the Tails project stand by. This work is derived from
the Debian Social Contract and the Tor Social Contract. If you have any
questions or comments, feel free to email: tails-project_@_boum.org.
This is a promise from our contributors community to the rest of the
world, affirming a commitment to our beliefs.
# 1. By creating Tails we try to provide usable tools for anonymity and
privacy
We believe that privacy, the free exchange of ideas, and equal access to
information are essential to free and open societies. Through our
community standards and the tools we create, we provide means that
empower all people to protect and advance these ideals.
# 2. Tails is and will remain free software
Equal access to information includes the free availability of our code
and documentation as well as the transparency of our decision making
processes.
All the components of Tails that we create ourselves are, and will be,
licensed in a manner consistent with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
Tails will always be free to use, remix, adapt and distribute. As the
only exceptions to this rule, Tails includes:
- a minor part of non-free firmware in order to work on as much hardware
as possible;
- a few pieces of software whose source code is public but not
compatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines; they are needed to
support important use cases.
# 3. We will give back to the Free Software community
Tails is a privacy-oriented Debian Derivative.
We want usable security and privacy-oriented tools to become a standard
for the Free Software community as a whole.
Bugfixes, code improvements, Debian packaging, as well as work on
usability issues will be upstreamed whenever possible. This way, our
modifications will benefit others and can be improved upon further by a
wider audience of people.
# 4. We encourage participation and transparency
We want to produce Tails in a way that encourages participation, which
requires publicly documenting what can be improved. As Tails is created
in such a transparent manner, anyone is encouraged to participate,
review it and point out problems.
To make our community a welcoming place for everybody we agreed on a
Code of Conduct.
# 5. We will never harm our users intentionally
We will always do our best to create secure and usable tools. We will
never willingly include backdoors or malicious software nor will we
cooperate with any entity wanting us to harm our users.
Mistakes sometimes happen. We will be honest about them and fix those
that affect the safety of Tails users when they are reported to us.
Whenever severe security issues are reported to us in private, we will
test them and ensure we promptly fix these issues. We will notify our
users whenever such an issue has been reported to us. However, for the
security of our users, we might not disclose such a severe issue before
releasing a fix.
# 6. We give users the means to decide how much they can rely on Tails
We encourage users to inform themselves and decide if Tails is suitable
for their use case and how much they can trust it. We work diligently to
keep our community up-to-date through our various communication channels
about the current state of our software and its limitations. We
encourage users to read our documentation as well as third-party
documentation in order to make an informed decision and engage in a
learning process about the tools we ship.
We provide and explain methods of verification so that anyone can ensure
that they downloaded a genuine copy of Tails.
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Cheers!
u.
