7 Oct
2006
7 Oct
'06
5:03 a.m.
Chris McCormick <chris(a)mccormick.cx>cx>:
Actually, I have a question about that. If person A
made a VST that
was GPL, and person B loaded it into a proprietary audio app,
wouldn't it technically have to be GPL in order to dynamically link
in the GPL plugin? This seems to me to be a bit like binary blobs in
the kernel.
The GPL is very clear on that it doesn't restrict you from _running_
the program in any way you want.
That is, person A gave person B the plug-in under a license that
allows person B to run it however he wants, and he does - end of
story.
(Trouble might begin if person be ships along the plug-in as part of a
software package which is not it self GPL or at least Free Software,
but that's a different and much more complicated issue.)