The Steinberg VST3 SDK is dual-licensed under a proprietary license or GPLv3, at the user’s choice (https://developer.steinberg.help/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9797944). So far, so good. There are some files in the tarball that are not dual-licensed (https://developer.steinberg.help/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=9797948), and these would need to be removed to create a redistributable version of the source archive—again, a common and well-documented situation.
However, there is another wrinkle. Steinberg imposes a long list of trademark-related “usage guidelines” (https://developer.steinberg.help/display/VST/Steinberg+VST+usage+guidelines) on all uses, including those under the GPLv3 license option. I fear these additional terms may make the VST3 SDK unsuitable for packaging in Fedora. If so, the subset of the VST3 SDK bundled in the giada package (which I recently started maintaining) may need to be removed as well. However, I would appreciate input from this list before proceeding in either direction—either removing the bundled SDK (hopefully doing so in %prep would be sufficient) and disabling the associated optional functionality in Giada, or attempting to unbundle the SDK as a separate Fedora package. Regards, Ben Beasley _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
