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

From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@email-addr-hidden-job.com>
Date: Sat Jan 28 2006 - 01:21:40 EET

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 23:04 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote:
> Lee Revell:
> > > 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.
>
> Quite different. Anyone can distribute the kernel
> without caring about the existence of the nVidia
> drivers. But if an application includes the VSTSDK, it
> presumably isn't complete without it.
>

Maybe the application just has hooks for the VST SDK, and a network
installer downloads and compiles it on the users machine? I guess
Steinberg might consider this a form of distribution.

Lee
Received on Sat Jan 28 04:15:12 2006

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