[LAD] GPL Violation Alert! - Sorry if this is a duplicate

[Gabriel M. Beddingfield]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Chris Cannam wrote:
>>>
>>> If your interpretation was correct, then I could require Cubase to be
>>> GPL'd by writing a VST plugin for it and publishing it under the GPL.
>>> This would obviously be absurd.  In real life, a court faced with a
>>
>> No, Steinburg wouldn't be held to the GPL... your user would.
>
> My _user_?  That can't be the case, the GPL only covers distribution.
> Nick's interpretation was "same memory space => derived work",
> implying that a host that loads a GPL'd plugin is a derived work of
> that plugin, ergo Cubase is a derived work of my VST plugin -- which
> is obviously absurd.
>

Your user is the one doing the linking (via VST)... so they're the ones 
making the violation.  You have to give special permission to do this:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#LinkingOverControlledInterface

Peace,
Gabriel