On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Gabriel M.
Beddingfield<gabriel(a)teuton.org> wrote:
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.
Chris