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Policies

PowerAudio’s development activity is governed by the following policies:

  1. The main focus of PowerAudio is to achieve software that builds and runs successfully on ppc64le GNU/Linux. In the case of audio plugins that can be compiled in multiple formats, LV2 is the primary concern.
  2. Only free/libre, open-source software is considered for porting.
  3. Modifications made by PowerAudio are released under a free software license, generally the same license as the original.
  4. Improvements that are good candidates for upstream inclusion (e.g., uncontroversial fixes not specific to Power) are submitted as pull requests to the relevant repositories.
  5. Where possible, if an issue on Power also affects other architectures, the fix is made as general as possible so that it benefits all architectures. For example, an x86-only program is ideally made cross-platform rather than adding support exclusively for Power.
  6. Fixes for a specific architecture or platform should not adversely affect other system types that were previously working (e.g., a fix for ppc64le should not break x86_64).
  7. Binary blobs are avoided. Even though Waf is free software, it is replaced with autowaf if distributed in binary form in any repository.