Hi all, I am working on a package for the sFizz project which provides a VST3 plugin, among others. The VST3 SDK from Steinberg is licensed under a compatible license, but imposes extra "guidelines" which has previously seen it be inadmissible in the Fedora repos and lead to some considerable effort to work around. One of the developers of sFizz asked the question on the Steinberg Forum:
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-3-sdk-licensing-faq/201638/20?u=jpcima Which contains relevant links, however I also received other information from another source that stated: Section 7: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further restrictions” within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term. Yet someone else countered this with: Section 7 also contains a list of non-permissive additional terms that *are* allowed to be imposed on top of the gpl Can someone comment on this please, I'd prefer not to have to strip the VST plugin as it is the preferred format and would take considerable effort to do so. Pete
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