[cw-discuss] Crossover - VST plugin support?

[JJB]

Ah, I see what you are talking about. I thought you meant product  
licensing for the binaries.

Joel


On Jan 19, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:

> On 1/19/07, JJB <onephatcat at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Mark,
>>
>> VST Licensing is simple: you put "Made with Steinberg VST Technology"
>> in the About box, and you don't use the tech in ways that would make
>> Steinberg look bad, or hurt people. No licensing fees are necessary.
>>
>> http://www.steinberg.de/532+M52087573ab0.html
>>
>> That is why there are so many 3rd party VST plugins and VST is still
>> the major standard.
>>
>>
>
> Hi,
>   You may be right but I think it's more difficult than that. To make
> any program that interfaces to a VST the developer has to (or used to
> have to) sign an agreement not to distribute the Steinberg VST
> interfaces in source format unless the receiver was already a licensee
> through Steinberg. This makes it difficult (impossible?) for a source
> distribution like Wine to include the VST interface definitions under
> GPL.
>
>   It would be completely true, to the best of my knowledge, that a
> company like Codeweavers could sign the Steinberg agreements and then
> develop and distribute an app in binary format that allowed VSts to
> work under Crossover or Wine in general. However doing it as source is
> not, or at least was now, allowed.
>
>   Again, you and I are on the same side here. Minihost, Savihost,
> Kore - it wouldn't matter to me which one worked as long as it worked
> well. I happen to like the NI applications as many of them run under
> Wine anyway so it would seem their basic programming style is already
> close to what's required.
>
> Over and out,
> Mark