On Monday 11 Apr 2005 23:19, Paul Davis wrote: > > longer easy to get working, it's apparently been superseded (has > > anyone actually seen xfst? I haven't), > > torben has done a couple of small test releases to people he > communicates with via IRC. Ah. No point talking about it here then. > >and it's never been properly licenced. > > the license situation is never going to be clear until Steinberg > clean up their act. No, the licence situation is clear enough I think. It just isn't very satisfactory. You can't legally link anything that uses the Steinberg headers into a GPL application and distribute the results as a binary, with or without source. dssi-vst is a plugin with very particular licensing -- this legal situation is one reason it is a plugin in the first place, instead of being something built-in to Rosegarden. People from Steinberg have indicated on several occasions that they would happily change the VST SDK licence to BSD or similar. (Well, you know that, and probably more for all I know.) It just never seems to have actually happened. Chris
