23 Nov
2008
23 Nov
'08
9:56 a.m.
Dave Phillips wrote:
Grammostola Rosea wrote:
I do have my doubts about this part.
The Steinberg license _explicitly_ prohibits the reverse-engineering of
the VST-SDK, not only the distribution or selling. Whether it's moot or
not is beyond me, IANAL, but IMHO, I'm afraid the LMMS/DSSI-VST vestige
header won't stand much in case of litigation.
byee
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rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela
rncbc(a)rncbc.org
I don't get the licence issue of VST on linux
completely, help me out with this.
- Building Ardour, Qtractor, LMMS with VST-support is illegal, right?
No. It is illegal to redistribute the Steinberg SDK (required for
building VST plugins). Its license is incompatible with many free
software licenses and the SDK cannot be added to typical Linux distros.
Btw, the developers of LMMS have reverse-engineered the required header
files from the Steinberg SDK, so it may be legally feasible to use that
code instead of the Steinberg headers.