On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 18:21 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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.
given that even human downloading requires email requests for help to be
sent to the vst-plugins list, it seems unlikely that a network installer
is going to be feasible. steinberg's ability to maintain a viable,
consistent download point is laughable.
--p
Received on Sat Jan 28 04:15:14 2006
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