[linux-audio-user] Linux Sampler

[Dave Phillips]

Florian Schmidt wrote:

>On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:34:43 -0500
>Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:
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>>there is more going on there than almost nobody on this list except for
>>the LS authors and myself is aware of. it would be wise for everyone to
>>not judge this admittedly very unpleasant change in the license without
>>being aware of the reasons why it occured. unfortunately, it is not
>>possible to explain any more.
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>This "Ah it's all ok, but we can't tell you why" doesn't sound
>convincing at all. Sorry.
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IANAL but I'll take a guess that there's a patent encumbrance issue. If 
I recall correctly the Giga folks own a patent on streaming audio to a 
sampler, and if the wording on that patent is sufficiently broad then 
there may indeed be a legal issue with LS's technology, regardless 
whether they actually broach the Giga patent. I welcome correction on 
the patent surmise, if I'm wrong about it.

Btw, are there clones of GS in the Win/Mac world ? If not, I'm sure it 
would be easy to discover why.

Well, you can always just use GS in Windows. That way you can be 
absolutely sure that you're dancing with the devil. ;)

Best,

dp