On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:30:35AM -0400, Rob wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 07:26, Dave Phillips wrote: > > >There will never be native Linux VST plugins, VST has a > > > non-free license. > > A little hope never hurts. Ico is now trying to lobby > > Yamaha/Steinberg into a license change to make it more > > favorable to FOSS development. > > I certainly would appreciate GPL/LGPL plugins, but why wouldn't > someone trying to develop a Linux plugin use LADSPA? Hi Rob, They might want users of other operating systems to be able to use their plugin in any software they like, including a GPL Windows audio application. Actually, I have a question about that. If person A made a VST that was GPL, and person B loaded it into a proprietary audio app, wouldn't it technically have to be GPL in order to dynamically link in the GPL plugin? This seems to me to be a bit like binary blobs in the kernel. Best regards, Chris. ------------------- chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://mccormick.cx
