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