Florian Schmidt wrote: >On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:34:43 -0500 >Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >>there is more going on there than almost nobody on this list except for >>the LS authors and myself is aware of. it would be wise for everyone to >>not judge this admittedly very unpleasant change in the license without >>being aware of the reasons why it occured. unfortunately, it is not >>possible to explain any more. >> >> > >[snip] >This "Ah it's all ok, but we can't tell you why" doesn't sound >convincing at all. Sorry. > > IANAL but I'll take a guess that there's a patent encumbrance issue. If I recall correctly the Giga folks own a patent on streaming audio to a sampler, and if the wording on that patent is sufficiently broad then there may indeed be a legal issue with LS's technology, regardless whether they actually broach the Giga patent. I welcome correction on the patent surmise, if I'm wrong about it. Btw, are there clones of GS in the Win/Mac world ? If not, I'm sure it would be easy to discover why. Well, you can always just use GS in Windows. That way you can be absolutely sure that you're dancing with the devil. ;) Best, dp
