>Ah. No point talking about it here then. this is LA*D*, where we are free to ramble about every stillborn idea that shows up in our wacky little minds, isn't it? :) >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 well, actually, thats not quite true. *I* can do that for Ardour, and I suspect that the Rosegarden group could do that for RG as well. Ditto Werner with MusE; since we are the copyright owners, we can do whatever we damn well please :) However, 3rd parties cannot, and in this day and age of O(N^2) Linux distributions, that is a bit of an issue. --p