David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 23 November 2008 15:08:51 Grammostola Rosea wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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? > Building is OK for your own use. You cannot distribute the versions to anyone > else. The ardour build config program tells you this explicitly. I believ the > qtractor and LMMS use the dssi-vst versions of the headers so do not need a > copy of the VST SDK to build. See beloe. No. Qtractor needs a copy of the original VST-SDK headers to build alright. The LMMS so-called vestige ones doesn't have all the needed source features. And I still have my doubts (see my other reply in this thread) >> - And energyxt? Are they allowed to use VST technology? > I believe they pay for the privilege and you pay for their program. >> - Installing JOST and using it, is illegal right? > For your own use, I believe no problem. >> - And FST and vst-dssi? > For your own use. Recent vst-dssi have their own version of the header files > which is hopefully legal and do not need Steinberg's. I am not sure of the > real legal situation with this. yeah. hopefully :) cheers -- 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
