Re: [LAU] some news from KVRaudio - Linux-audio-user

8 Dec 2009

drew Roberts wrote:
...
  ... This is the bit that made me think I might be
confused:

 "The DC'09 packages contain only a small impulse response database. If you are 
 interested in a larger database (193MB), download the following archive and 
 extract it to your HybridReverb2 folder."

 Is the small one a Free one and the large one the one that is NC?

 I am thinking no, that the small one and the large one are both "property of 
 the Institute of Communication Acoustics, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, and are 
 free for non-commercial use."

 but am asking for clarification just to be certain. I am not sure if the DC'09 
 stuff is a special version of the thing with a small Free db...

Hi drew,

Well, this statement:

"The room impulse responses (presets) which come with 
/HybridReverb2/...are free for non-commercial use"

says nothing about the actual licensing for those IRs.

I looked on the Institute's site and could find nothing about any IR 
collection and/or licensing policy.

So, from what I read, the plugin is GPL, the library is LGPL, and the 
IRs are undefined wrt their license.

Btw, I checked the installation IRs from the original package, i.e. the 
smaller collection. Judging from the file names, dates, and sizes it 
apears that the included collection is indeed a subset of the bigger set 
(I downloaded it too), and presumably covered by the same license, if any.

For further clarification I suggest contacting either Christian or the 
Institute.

HTH,

dp