Hi, again.
You may have heard about VST and its non-free headers. I'm using a free
program that optionally supports that technology and, of course, it'd be
nice to have that support in main.
I believe reverse engineering is legal, even a common practice (so I've
read in some messages in this list
Hi Javier,
sorry for the delay, but I was on holiday and I'm still recovering the
old mails..
|--==> Javier Serrano Polo writes:
JSP> Hi, again.
JSP> You may have heard about VST and its non-free headers. I'm using a free
JSP> program that optionally supports that technology and, of course
En/na Free Ekanayaka ha escrit:
> Hi Javier,
>
> sorry for the delay, but I was on holiday and I'm still recovering the
> old mails..
Oh my, you don't need to apologize.
> JSP> Oh, that reminds me. Free Ekanayaka, did you get explicit permission
> JSP> from Torben Hohn? You know that Steinbe
>>
>>I've downloaded the VST development kit from the Steinberg site, and
>>accepted the use conditions. Then I've built the fst package (as you
>>would compile any other VST plugin using the Steinberg development
>>kit) and uploaded it to non-free. From my understanding th
En/na Free Ekanayaka ha escrit:
> I do not fully understand what should be done, however I think would
> worth trying, and I can help in that (e.g. by contacting the involved
> developers).
> Is there somebody on this list able to expose in simple what could be
> done?
I should warn you. You w
|--==> Javier Serrano Polo writes:
JSP> En/na Free Ekanayaka ha escrit:
>>I do not fully understand what should be done, however I think would
>>worth trying, and I can help in that (e.g. by contacting the involved
>>developers).
>>Is there somebody on this list able to expose in sim
En/na Free Ekanayaka ha escrit:
> JSP> I should warn you. You won't be the first one trying this. Others have
> JSP> already failed, including me.
>
> It sounds rather scaring :(
Considering the guy who was making the Ubuntu package failed, I don't
think you're gonna do better.
> Is dssi-vst
|--==> Javier Serrano Polo writes:
JSP> En/na Free Ekanayaka ha escrit:
JSP> I should warn you. You won't be the first one trying this. Others have
JSP> already failed, including me.
>>
>>It sounds rather scaring :(
JSP> Considering the guy who was making the Ubuntu package failed, I
Hi Free, hi Javier,
I don't feel very confident as far as legal matters are concerned, but
maybe Daniel James, who has already dealt with other audio/multimedia
related legal issues may help us
I believe the only long-term solution is for Steinberg to release the
headers under a free softwar
En/na Free Ekanayaka ha escrit:
> JSP> Have you thought about packaging an installer?
>
> No, but sounds as a good idea to me. What would the install do exactly
> in your opinion?
When configuring, the user must accept Steinberg's license. This is an
online process. I'd try to parse the license
En/na Daniel James ha escrit:
> I believe the only long-term solution is for Steinberg to release the
> headers under a free software compatible licence. I don't think this is
> impossible now, for several reasons...
>
> 1. Steinberg is now owned by Yamaha, a hardware company
> 2. Yamaha is active
Hi Javier,
- VST 2.4 SDK was released in the beginning of 2006. It's being
distributed "freely subject to certain licensing conditions".
I don't think it's a big step from there to making it free software
compatible.
- Long-term solution means exactly that: long-term. Steinberg changed
own
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