Re: [Audacity-devel] libsamplerate and VST plugins

[Steve t. F. <ste...@gm...>]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<ml...@me...> wrote:
> Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>
>> On 2/16/11, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>>
>> > Since the major part of the problem is with the license on the VST
>> > header files (ie they are not allowed to be re-distributed but each
>> > person must get them directly from steinberg), the obvious thing
>> > would be to put the VST plugin code in a separate process.
>>
>> An even more obvious solution is to bloody well use open source
>> VeSTige reverse-engineeered headers. I'm amazed we still don't do it.
>
> That would also be a solution as long as any VST plugin distributed
> in the Audacity tarball/zipfile/installer/whatever was under a GPL
> compatible license.
>
> Erik
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That shouldn't be a problem for official Audacity releases as there
are no VST plug-ins distributed with Audacity.
Steve