Re: [LMMS-devel] VST header

[Javier S. P. <ja...@te...>]

En/na Tobias Doerffel ha escrit:
> Hi!,
> 
>> A couple of months ago, I made a header to allow VeSTige to compile.
>> This was only useful in developing tasks. Later I thought: "What the...!
>> Let's do it!" So I gathered information from several sources, some
>> reverse engineering and here I am with a GPL header, free of Steinberg's
>> (direct) sources, that makes VeSTige actually show a GUI and produce sound.
> hey, you're crazy man!!! :-) now I hope that there're indeed no problems, as 
> reverse-engineering actually is forbidden

That may be true for people who have signed Steinberg's license, but I'm
not bound to that. Besides, look at Samba and WINE, they have reverse
engineering origins.

> and the people who wrote 
> VST-plugins, used VST-SDK for it, therefore there indirectly information from 
> Steinberg...

They were allowed to distribute it in binary form.

> I don't know whom to ask for a more sure answer, maybe it's even 
> the best to mail Steinberg...

Sure, I would. But I think they've made their opinion clear enough.
The matter is this is a free header, it can be used by anybody,
dssi-vst, fst and other projects (if they manage to get the missing parts).
Anyway, if you want me to mail Steinberg, I'll do it. They'll find out
sooner or later.

>> Toby, do I submit this to the list for a preview, commit it to the
>> include folder, vestige folder...?
> Do all features of VeSTige work with your header?

All the important features. There're some parts not finished, though
they aren't really used.
At this point, I need users' feedback to confirm it's working.

> However it'd be nice to send 
> me the header directly, before having cleared the stuff described above...

Since you have signed Steinberg's license (haven't you?), it's better to
submit this to a public list. The feedback you're allowed to provide me
is minimal, somewhat restricted to "this plugin works, this plugin doesn't".

Later.