On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Simon Wise wrote: > It is not a technical point about only using free software ... it is a very > real copyright issue. VST is owned by Steinberg so unless you are willing to > ignore/reject Copyright and IP laws (which would be really problematic > regarding your other points about encouraging commercial software on Linux) > then you are very limited in how VST can be distributed in Linux. To change > that you must convince Steinberg to change the license they offer. A freely > distributed program obviously cannot pay Steinberg for every downloaded copy > .. so no license .. so the potential user must compile their own version of > VST support. > > See Dave Philips article ... > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000192 This is an article from goddamn 2007! :) Long before VeSTige came about. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
