7 Feb
2013
7 Feb
'13
8:58 a.m.
On 02/06/2013 08:45 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Simon Wise wrote:
Hmmm. Is it just me, or does it sound like VeSTige was
reverse-engineered? Which appears to be forbidden by the VST license?
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It is not a technical point about only using free
software ... it is a very
real copyright issue. VST is owned by Steinberg so unless you are willing to
ignore/reject Copyright and IP laws (which would be really problematic
regarding your other points about encouraging commercial software on Linux)
then you are very limited in how VST can be distributed in Linux. To change
that you must convince Steinberg to change the license they offer. A freely
distributed program obviously cannot pay Steinberg for every downloaded copy
.. so no license .. so the potential user must compile their own version of
VST support.
See Dave Philips article ...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000192
This is an article from goddamn 2007! :) Long before VeSTige came about.