[linux-audio-user] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Concerning libfst, vstserver, and dssi-vst

[Chris Cannam]

On Monday 11 Apr 2005 23:19, Paul Davis wrote:
> > longer easy to get working, it's apparently been superseded (has
> > anyone actually seen xfst? I haven't),
>
> torben has done a couple of small test releases to people he
> communicates with via IRC.

Ah.  No point talking about it here then.

> >and it's never been properly licenced.
>
> the license situation is never going to be clear until Steinberg
> clean up their act.

No, the licence situation is clear enough I think.  It just isn't very 
satisfactory.  You can't legally link anything that uses the Steinberg 
headers into a GPL application and distribute the results as a binary, 
with or without source.  dssi-vst is a plugin with very particular 
licensing -- this legal situation is one reason it is a plugin in the 
first place, instead of being something built-in to Rosegarden.

People from Steinberg have indicated on several occasions that they 
would happily change the VST SDK licence to BSD or similar.  (Well, you 
know that, and probably more for all I know.)  It just never seems to 
have actually happened.


Chris