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