[LAU] So what do you think sucks about Linux audio ?

[hermann meyer]

Am 08.02.2013 12:50, schrieb Paul Davis:
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> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:38 AM, david <gnome at hawaii.rr.com 
> <mailto:gnome at hawaii.rr.com>> wrote:
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>         I do realize that I sound pig-headed, but a license is an
>         agreement.
>         If you didn't sign one, how can you possibly violate the terms?
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>         "3. The Licensee has no permission to sell, licence, give-away
>         and/or
>         distribute the Licensed Software Developer Kit or parts of it
>         in any
>         way, on any medium, including the Internet, to any other person,
>         including sub-licensors of the Licensee or companies where the
>         Licensee has any involvement. This includes re-working this
>         specification, or reverse-engineering any products based upon this
>         specification."
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>         The Licensee, Dave, is someone who has been granted a licence.
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>     Using something without agreeing to the terms (licence) under
>     which the provider of that something offers it is theft. "Of
>     course I can steal and use your $50000 software: I never agreed to
>     your license!" "Of course I can steal and use your car: I never
>     agreed that it's yours!"
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> as has been patiently explained, vestige is a CLEAN ROOM reverse 
> engineered version of VST, that was created by someone who did NOT 
> download the VST SDK, did not USE the VST SDK to develop it, did not 
> obtain anything from steinberg to develop it.
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Dave, as a addition: That have nothing to do with accept the license or 
not, only, when you have sign the license, you cant do a CLEAN ROOM 
reverse engineering of the VST SDK any more, because you have properly 
had a look at the source.  Therefrom you get a knowledge which you are 
didn't allow to use.


> making a parallel with theft is borderline offensive. do you not 
> understand what the term "clean room reverse engineering" means?
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> now of course, you're free to allege that vestige could not have been 
> or was not developed in "clean room" style, but that is an entirely 
> separate claim.
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