[Consortium] re: VST licensing progress

[Ivica Ico Bukvic]

>  > (my
> > research so far has led me to Steinberg's headquarters in Germany, as
> > apparently Yamaha has nothing to do with it).
> 
> Not only does Yamaha own Steinberg, but they put one of their own people
> in as managing director:

Yes, Yamaha does own Steinberg, but that is not what my comment was
addressing. What I meant is that in the Yamaha headquarters they appeared to
not only care much about the entire issue, but were apparently also unable
to help me in any shape/form. Their only suggestion was to talk to the
German Steinberg HQ... So, apparently the Steinberg's HQs is where the IP
decisions in respect to Steinberg are still being made (unless I was given a
run-around treatment which is difficult to say for sure until the suggested
lead is investigated).

> Having said that, there is at least one existing VST on Linux
> implementation that uses a proprietary application layer, so from
> Steinberg's viewpoint the current SDK licence is perhaps not a
> problematic one.

And which also includes VST headers with its source without Steinberg's
explicit permission and doing so legally? If so, which one is it and how did
they pull that one off?

Ico