johannes take a look here

http://www.opensource.org/licenses

that site has a list of all open source licenses. if there isnt a license
you can draft one and submit it for approval.

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Johannes Kroll <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> Suppose I'm writing a GPL'd native Linux VSTi. The GPL is incompatible
> with the VST SDK, so if I understand it correctly, I can't legally
> distribute the binary generated from GPL code + VST SDK.
>
> So my question is, is there an open source "Vestige for plugin
> development"? The aeffectx.h included with LMMS seems to implement only
> the host part.
>
> Would you be interested in writing such an interface? It might be basic
> at first, implementing only the simplest things necessary for getting a
> VSTi to run. I might be able to help with reverse engineering, but I
> don't want to duplicate work, so I thought I'd ask first if anything
> related is already on the way.
>
> Then there's the legality question of course. As I understand the
> situation, the SDK's license forbids reverse engineering or "reworking
> this specification"; but as long as we don't use the SDK, we don't have
> to accept this license, so the "no reverse-engineering" clause doesn't
> apply. Correct?
>
> Greets,
> Johannes
>
>
>
>
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