Re: [linux-audio-dev] xt2 coming to linux

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Fri Jan 27 2006 - 21:37:55 EET

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 19:21 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Lee Revell writes:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:57 +0100, Michael Bohle wrote:
> > > But anyway, VST on Linux is dead now, beause
> > > most of the user are not
> > > able to compile it for themself.
> >
> > Wrong. You just need to write a wrapper that
> > handles the compiling.
>
> Won't help if the code is to be part of a GPL'd
> application.
>

The Linux kernel is a GPL'ed application yet Nvidia gets away with
linking into it. It's widely acknowledged to be illegal, but as the
linking is done by the end user, it's the user who violates the GPL, not
Nvidia.

> Also, I think (?) you have to register to download the
> VSTSDK.
>
>
> Chris
>
Received on Sat Jan 28 00:15:15 2006

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