Quoting "Paul Davis" <[email protected]>: > * The FSF is on crack if they believe that you can possibly call a > LADSPA host a derivative work of any number of LADSPA > plugins unless the host automatically loads and uses those > plugins to provide non-optional functionality to the user.
I think this is the key difference. And it should be reflected in a "good" license for open source plugins. In my mind it's not really about distribution, but actually how the plugins are used by the software. > I am still deeply disappointed that this issue, which has been around > for more than a decade, was not resolved in GPL v3. Its absurd that we > should still be debating this in 2009. The FSF needs to: > > (1) describe the differences between static linkage, dynamic > linkage and run-time linkage We need to reflect what you said earlier in the linkage categories We need to have: - static linkage - dyamic linkage - run-time linkage - user-initiated run-time linkage The last category is where the usual DAW etc. comes in. I fear that Beat Kangz might be using my limiter (or some other GPL'd plugin) as an inherent part of their processing chain. If this is the case, they have stepped over a significant boundary regarding the spirit of GPL. I've been trying to find a manual / video which would show how processing is configured in Beat Kangz. Has someone stumbled on one? Sampo _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
