Re: [linux-audio-dev] initial release of libfst - in-process VST support

Thanks. We are still looking into some outstanding issues with it. Come learn all about it at ZKM :) This is an error on my part. I forgot that libwinelib.c was covered by an LGPL from the mono crew. The license is a bit complex: fst/fst/vstwin.c: GPL (written by torbenh and myself) fst/fst/<others>.c: LGPL (written by mono but drastically hacked by us) I will correct that in a new release. Our hope is that most of what is in <others.c> can go back into Wine itself in the not too distance future, which would leave us with just a GPL'ed tiny library containing only code that Torben or I wrote. We do not want commercial companies to use this code under an LPGL-like arrangement. There are already 2 companies selling products that use Linux to run VST plugins, and we see no point contributing this particular code to efforts like those. I imagine that Torben and I could be persuaded otherwise. There is no SDK. There is no library, no source files, etc. etc. What is required is a pair of header files. You do not require any VST files to run things based on libfst, only to compile them. My reading of the GPL doesn't suggest to me that this is incompatible with the GPL. Do you see it otherwise? Almost correct. Only the copyright holders of "any other code" can work around that, since they are not bound by the GPL as it applies to their own work. Even then, its a gray area. Its an absurd situation. Unless you (or anyone else) has any suggestions, it can't be fixed until Steinberg changes their approach. So guess who you should be writing to? :)) I will take this up on vst-plugins again. --p