On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 08:58:12 -0500 jordan <triplesquarednine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hey, > > > 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. > > Vestige provides a replacement for Stienberg's VSTSDK, it's been > widely used for some time now, by several projects (FST, FSTHost, > LMMS, Ardour, etc, etc)... I use both Windows and Linux VSTs all of > the time, I don't feel restricted by Steinberg. It's pretty simple, do > not rely on their header, use Vestige and their is no problem. The > last time i was required to get the VSTSDK from Steinberg was quite > some time ago, like 2007-8 and that was to compile/use one specific > application / corner case. The only time i (still) have actually need > some headers from Steinberg is for WineASIO support (asio.h), which i > barely use. You are only limited in how/what can be distributed if you > plan on using the VSTSDK - which would mean you are in the position of > WineASIO / ASIO SDK - the end-user must get the header (asio.h) and > compile WineASIO him/herself. (but even that doesn't bother me, since > it takes all of 3 minutes to do). AFAIK, Vestige only works for the host side. For building plugins you still need the VST SDK. At least that's what I thought. Has that changed? _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
