[LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Thu Feb 7 07:58:13 UTC 2013


On 02/06/2013 08:45 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Simon Wise wrote:
>
>> It is not a technical point about only using free software ... it is a very
>> real copyright issue. VST is owned by Steinberg so unless you are willing to
>> ignore/reject Copyright and IP laws (which would be really problematic
>> regarding your other points about encouraging commercial software on Linux)
>> then you are very limited in how VST can be distributed in Linux. To change
>> that you must convince Steinberg to change the license they offer. A freely
>> distributed program obviously cannot pay Steinberg for every downloaded copy
>> .. so no license .. so the potential user must compile their own version of
>> VST support.
>>
>> See Dave Philips article ...
>>
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000192
>
> This is an article from goddamn 2007! :) Long before VeSTige came about.

Hmmm. Is it just me, or does it sound like VeSTige was 
reverse-engineered? Which appears to be forbidden by the VST license?

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