On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Chris Cannam wrote: > > If your interpretation was correct, then I could require Cubase to be > GPL'd by writing a VST plugin for it and publishing it under the GPL. > This would obviously be absurd. In real life, a court faced with a
No, Steinburg wouldn't be held to the GPL... your user would. Your users need special permission from you (the plug-in copyright holder) in order to link your GPL program against a closed-source program. Otherwise, it's your users who are making the violation. For example, before Qt was GPL, the FSF issued a blanket permission and retroactive "amnesty" for all FSF programs that have been linked against the Qt toolkit. They did this because they didn't see Qt as has having a compatible license... but people were linking GPL programs to it. Peace, Gabriel _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
