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On 02/13/2014 10:26 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote:
> Can we discuss whether or not to ship at least one VST instrument with LMMS?

My (layman's) understanding is that the VST SDK is incompatible with the
GPL. I know that Wine is LGPL, so maybe because the DLL is being run under
Wine and not LMMS directly it might be legally possible on platforms that
use Wine to run Windows code.

But the Windows version, which I assume opens the VSTs directly, couldn't
then be distributed unless everyone who's ever contributed code to LMMS
signed off on a special linking exception clause being added to the LMMS
COPYING document, or to switch LMMS to the LGPL altogether.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs

Or, someone could probably rewrite vst_base/vst_effect and license it under
the LGPL, though I don't know whether that would be enough. Don't care
much, either, since I don't use Windows myself.

If there's a clean-room implementation of the VST API these days and you
can find a suitable GPL-compatible example VST built with it, I take all
this back, but I'm not aware of such a development.

Rob

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