Re: [Lmuse-developer] VST and dssi support

[Chris C. <ca...@al...>]

On Wednesday 02 Feb 2005 10:32, Werner Schweer wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 09:03, Chris Cannam wrote:
> > By my reading, MusE _is_ violating the GPL.  I don't think anyone
> > cares very much, fortunately.
>
> VST is a compile time option for MusE. Im not a lawayer but i believe
> only a binary with compiled in VST does not conform to GPL and cannot
> be distributed.

You're right -- I wasn't being fair, and I was about to follow up to 
correct my mistake.  A program cannot violate the GPL, only some 
distribution of it can.

> better write a linux native plugin for MESS or DSSI. VST+Wine is only
> a hack and ever will be.

I entirely agree with you there.


Chris