Hi all,
I am working on a package for the sFizz project which provides a VST3
plugin, among others. The VST3 SDK from Steinberg is licensed under a
compatible license, but imposes extra "guidelines" which has previously
seen it be inadmissible in the Fedora repos and lead to some considerable
effort to work around. One of the developers of sFizz asked the question on
the Steinberg Forum:
https://forums.steinberg.net/t/vst-3-sdk-licensing-faq/201638/20?u=jpcima
Which contains relevant links, however I also received other information
from another source that stated:
Section 7:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
All other non-permissive additional terms are considered “further
restrictions” within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as you
received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is
governed by this License along with a term that is a further
restriction, you may remove that term.
Yet someone else countered this with:
Section 7 also contains a list of non-permissive additional terms that
*are* allowed to be imposed on top of the gpl
Can someone comment on this please, I'd prefer not to have to strip the VST
plugin as it is the preferred format and would take considerable effort to
do so.
Pete