Re: [Audacity-devel] reimplementing VST

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 08:15  PM, Joshua Haberman wrote:
> (speaking of which, what would it take to reimplement VST?  I've heard
> the claim that interfaces are not copyrightable, though the specific 
> SDK
> code can be.  I'm completely untainted, I've never seen any of the VST
> SDK.  Would it be possible to communicate the knowledge about the
> interface to me in such a way that my work would not be derived?  On 
> the
> other hand, I don't want to spend my adult life being harassed by
> Steinberg's legal department, which would surely happen even if we were
> in the right).

I've been really tempted to do this.  While I'm sure you could
handle it, I don't think you'd be a good choice, because even
though you've never looked at the VST SDK, it would be hard to
prove that, since you're so familiar with the rest of the Audacity
codebase.

Either way, I agree that this wouldn't win over the favor of the
Steinberg legal department.

- Dominic