On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:42:48 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Like MIDI, GMPI will be license free and royalty free. > > Phase 1 of the GMPI working group's effort is to determine what is required > of GMPI: What sorts of capabilities are needed to support existing products > and customers? What are the emerging new directions that must be addressed?
Thanks for starting this Ron, I for one hope that it will be successful. I'd guess that us Free Software types are going to want a more strict definition of "licence free" ;), so can I suggest we argue amongst ourselves about what we'd like in the way of licencing before spamming the list. Some sort of (seperate, technical) statement from the l-a-d community about what features we'd like is probably a good idea too. We have more experiences in some areas than the closed plugin systems, eg. plugins as modular synth modules, natural ranges*, seperating UIs from DSP code** and metadata. * unless MAS or TDM do this, I dont know anything about them. ** except TDM and hardware accelerated VST, and modulo obove - Steve
