Editing Source Mage (section)

==Social contract==
Source Mage has established a [[distribution commitments|distribution commitment]]. ''Source Mage Social Contract'' establishes its basic rules, which are similar though not identical to [[Debian Social Contract|Debian]]'s. The first part of the contract ensures the freedom of Source Mage: {{blockquote|We promise to keep the Source Mage GNU/Linux Distribution entirely free (as in freedom). This means that all software we release will be licensed under the GNU General Public License as defined by the Free Software Foundation (fsf.org). All of our documentation will be released under the GNU Free Documentation License.<ref name="soccon">[http://sourcemage.org/Social%20Contract Social Contract - official website]</ref>}}
Source Mage does not restrict the user's choice of software to only free software: {{blockquote|We acknowledge that some of our users require the use of programs that don't conform to the strict SMGL Licensing Guidelines. While SMGL will never rely on non-free software, we do not limit a user's choice of software. We will provide the tools for a user to make their own informed decisions, via each spell's "LICENSE" field, and the sorcery spell filter. Thus, although non-free software isn't a part of Source Mage, we support its use, and we provide infrastructure (such as our bug-tracking system and mailing lists, as well as spells) for non-free software packages.<ref name="soccon" />}}