4 Aug
2009
4 Aug
'09
1:08 p.m.
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.
Your users need special permission from you (the plug-in copyright holder)
in order to link your GPL program against a closed-source program.
Otherwise, it's your users who are making the violation.
For example, before Qt was GPL, the FSF issued a blanket permission and
retroactive "amnesty" for all FSF programs that have been linked against
the Qt toolkit. They did this because they didn't see Qt as has having a
compatible license... but people were linking GPL programs to it.
Peace,
Gabriel