On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 08:58:12 -0500
jordan <triplesquarednine@email-addr-hidden> 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?
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