Dave Phillips wrote: > Grammostola Rosea wrote: >> I don't get the licence issue of VST on linux completely, help me out with this. >> >> >> - Building Ardour, Qtractor, LMMS with VST-support is illegal, right? >> > No. It is illegal to redistribute the Steinberg SDK (required for > building VST plugins). Its license is incompatible with many free > software licenses and the SDK cannot be added to typical Linux distros. > > Btw, the developers of LMMS have reverse-engineered the required header > files from the Steinberg SDK, so it may be legally feasible to use that > code instead of the Steinberg headers. I do have my doubts about this part. The Steinberg license _explicitly_ prohibits the reverse-engineering of the VST-SDK, not only the distribution or selling. Whether it's moot or not is beyond me, IANAL, but IMHO, I'm afraid the LMMS/DSSI-VST vestige header won't stand much in case of litigation. byee -- rncbc aka Rui Nuno Capela rncbc@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
