[linux-audio-user] ANN: JOST, a simple host for native VST
Chris Cannam
cannam at all-day-breakfast.com
Tue Feb 27 09:31:35 EST 2007
On Tuesday 27 Feb 2007 13:34, Michael Bohle wrote:
> This is partly a self made problem: to release VST aware software
> under GPL is a kick against the users, against the musicans who want
> to use Linux as a all in one OS solution.
>
> Thats why Chris Cannam decided to release dssi-vst under a lesser
> GPL.
No, it isn't. I released dssi-vst under a cut-down GPL because the
Steinberg license prevented me from releasing it under the normal GPL.
> To make the Steinberg VST-SDK licencing issues responsible for this,
> is not the fine art of politics. The main problem is the restrictive
> GPL.
I find it fascinating that someone who appears to be involved with the
development of a Linux distribution should give so little credit to the
GPL as one of the reasons they are able to do so in the first place.
Chris
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