[linux-audio-dev] xt2 coming to linux

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 23:04 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Lee Revell:
> > > Won't help if the code is to be part of a GPL'd 
> > > application. 
> > 
> > The Linux kernel is a GPL'ed application yet Nvidia 
> > gets away with linking into it.
> 
> Quite different.  Anyone can distribute the kernel 
> without caring about the existence of the nVidia 
> drivers.  But if an application includes the VSTSDK, it 
> presumably isn't complete without it. 
> 

Maybe the application just has hooks for the VST SDK, and a network
installer downloads and compiles it on the users machine?  I guess
Steinberg might consider this a form of distribution.

Lee