Social Contract openage

Social Contract

Version 1.0 ratified on February XX, 2020. Inspired by Debian Social Contract.

openage, the producers of the openage ecosystem, have created the openage Social Contract.
Social Contract with the Free Software Community

    openage will remain 100% free
    We promise that openage and all its components will be free. We will support people who create or use both free and non-free works on openage. We will never make the system require the use of a non-free component.

    We will give back to the free software community
    When we write new components of the openage ecosystem, we will license them in a manner consistent with our guidelines. We will make the best system we can, so that free works will be widely distributed and used. We will communicate things such as bug fixes, improvements and user requests to the upstream authors of works included in our system.

    We will not hide problems
    We will keep our entire bug report database open for public view at all times. Reports that people file online will promptly become visible to others.

    Our priorities are our users and free software
    We will be guided by the needs of our users and the free software community. We will place their interests first in our priorities. We will support the needs of our users for operation in many different kinds of computing environments. We will not object to non-free works that are intended to be used on openage systems, or attempt to charge a fee to people who create or use such works. We will allow others to create games using the openage engine without any fee from us. In furtherance of these goals, we will provide an integrated system of high-quality materials with no legal restrictions that would prevent such uses of the system.

    Works that do not meet our free software standards
    We acknowledge that the openage engine can be used in combination with content that does not conform with free software standards. These content packages are not part of the openage project, even if they have been configured for use with openage. Users must conform to the licenses of the packages in these areas and determine if and how they can distribute the packages with openage on any medium. Although non-free works are not a part of openage, we support their usage.