I have repeatedly bugged them, and also urged the VST mailing list to bug 
them, which they did, all to no avail.

Steinberg replied that they would think about it, but nothing has happened.

We should keep pestering them.

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Kozar" 
To: "Csound Developer list" 
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] vst4cs on linux


> One problem with all of this is that the VST SDK license is not compatible
> with many open-source software licenses!  You have no rights to 
> redistribute
> any portion of the VST SDK, and if you use any GPL or LGPL code that you
> have not written yourself, then you cannot satisfy the [L]GPL requirements
> for redistribution.
>
> If people really want VST better supported on Linux, then they should also
> bug Steinberg for an SDK that is more friendly to open source.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
> Anthony
>
> Andres Cabrera wrote on 3/18/07 8:33 AM:
>
>> There are no minimal requirements for the audio engine, and it seems the
>> vst sdk version is also not important (though maybe some features are
>> still not implemented). It would make things a lot easier if the gui is
>> written to use vstgui. If not, a port to gtk or something that works in
>> linux would need to be done for the gui. I could give a hand with the
>> gui if the project is open source, but I'm not sure if the developers
>> want this. It's still generous of them to be enthusiastic for linux 
>> support.
>> I don know colinux, but it seems to be in an early stage. If there is no
>> linux install available, maybe it'll work better with knoppix.
>>
>> A little note about vst support on linux. There's still very little
>> support for native vst's, though I think it'll probably grow a lot. I
>> think the only software that currently supports native linux vst is jost
>> and energyxt2. Csound is on it's way, but there's still work to be done.
>
>
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