<p>This social contract has been replaced in 2024 by the <a href="https://community.torproject.org/policies/social_contract/">Tor Project Social Contract</a>.</p>
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.
All the components of Tails that we create ourselves are, and will be, licensed in a manner consistent with the [Debian Free Software Guidelines](https://www.debian.org/social_contract).
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.