Re: [Audacity-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] VST API

[Alexandre P. <av...@al...>]

On 22 Apr 2003 22:42:25 -0700
Joshua Haberman <jo...@re...> wrote:

> Replying to a post on linux-audio-dev
> 
> On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 05:25, Paul Davis wrote:
> > >Is there something in the VST SDK licensing agreement that
> > >would prevent someone from porting the API to Linux?
> > 
> > you are not allowed to redistribute the headers. i suspect that
> > the files that come with audacity (for example) are a violation
> > of the license agreement regarding VST.
> 
> Is this true?  Perhaps we need to be a bit more legally aware in
> general.  At one point Matt suggested a license audit for all of
> lib-src.  This might not be a bad idea.

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