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.
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.
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.
Bug fixes, code improvements, Debian packaging, as well as work on usability issues will be sent upstream whenever possible. This way, our modifications will benefit others and can be improved upon further by a wider audience of people.
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.
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.
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.