I would be overjoyed if you would create an updated Debian package (I really mean Ubuntu).

As you can see from recent discussions, there may be licensing issues with respect to the Steinberg VST SDK that is used by CsoundVST and by the vst4cs opcodes. There may also be licensing issues regarding the STK C++ opcodes (all opcodes whose names begin "STK" are thin wrappers on the original STK C++ source code, which must be obtained from the STK web site).

I would like to make certain that the following features are included in any Debian/Ubuntu package:

-- All language interfaces to the Csound API, including Python, Java, Lisp, and Lua.
-- The algorithmic composition features of CsoundVST.

There are no licensing issues regarding these features. I would also like to include the following, but we have to resolve the licensing issues:

-- The VST plugin feature of CsoundVST.
-- The vst4cs opcodes (which may actually be usable on Linux since there are some Linux ports of VST plugins).
-- The STK opcodes.

Please be aware that there do exist other projects on SourceForge that (a) include VST SDK files or depend on the VST SDK, or (b) do not distribute sources for everything included in binaries. It might also be possible to modify the Csound license (currently LGPL 2) to permit linking with the VST SDK and/or the STK. 

Of course we could raise these issues directly with SourceForge administrators.

As John ffitch noted, there is no licensing issue with liblo.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Felipe Sateler 
>Sent: Jul 9, 2007 11:36 PM
>To: csound-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] More licensing
>
>Mike Coleman wrote:
>
>> Anthony,
>> 
>> Thank you for doing the legwork to make sure that csound's licensing
>> is kosher.  I've just started looking at it recently, and its
>> licensing immediately caught my eye as being possibly worrisome.  It's
>> a nice piece of software with a lot of history behind it, and it
>> wouldn't do to have it get sued out of existence.
>> 
>> With regard to the Debian/Ubuntu packaging, I'd personally like to see
>> this, as building it is currently a bit tricky.  There are packages
>> now in the standard Debian distribution, but they are stale enough to
>> be almost not worth using (as compared to csound 5).  I think having
>> available in Ubuntu would garner many new users.
>
>Just for the record, I have just taken over the Debian package, and am (just
>now) preparing a 5.06.0 package for debian. So if anyone is working on a
>Debian/Ubuntu package, it may be useful to coordinate.
>
>-- 
>
>  Felipe Sateler
>
>
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