18 Nov
2014
18 Nov
'14
1:53 a.m.
On November 17, 2014 05:40:38 PM Peder Hedlund wrote:
Quoting Ben Bell
<bjb-linux-audio-user(a)deus.net>et>:
But there's still a problem here.
The vestige header is far from complete. For example it is missing several
flag definitions and some features that are found in the real header.
At what point would this header be completed - that is if it /can/ be legally?
What is the legality of using missing flag 'numbers' but with your own
flag names? Does it matter? Or no names at all, just the hard-coded numbers?
T.
On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 08:56:37AM -0500, Paul
Davis wrote:
The "dodgy legal footing" was probably the clash in licensing between
the GPL and Steinberger's VST SDK license which made people unable to
legally distribute VST-enabled linux binaries.
When the VeSTige reverse-engineered VST headers were released that
particular problem went away.
- Peder you'll find more discussion here;
https://community.ardour.org/node/8496
Ah, hmm. It seems maybe this isn't the disaster it seemed. I had a memory
that VST support on Linux was shaky and on dodgy legal footing, but
perhaps
it's moved on or I've had the wrong end of the stick.