On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 23:04 +0000, Chris Cannam wrote: > Lee Revell: > > > Won't help if the code is to be part of a GPL'd > > > application. > > > > The Linux kernel is a GPL'ed application yet Nvidia > > gets away with linking into it. > > Quite different. Anyone can distribute the kernel > without caring about the existence of the nVidia > drivers. But if an application includes the VSTSDK, it > presumably isn't complete without it. >
Maybe the application just has hooks for the VST SDK, and a network installer downloads and compiles it on the users machine? I guess Steinberg might consider this a form of distribution. Lee