Steinberg VST license

[p0nce]

I've converted the VST 2.4 SDK from Steinberg which include a custom license, available here: http://www.gersic.com/vstsdk/html/plug/intro.html#licence
Should we add a special case for it?

[s-ludwig]

It looks like it may be difficult to match with other licenses. Especially the paragraphs about disallowing to

• "license the information contained in this SDK to anyone else."
• "re-work or otherwise pass this technology off as your own."

and

• "make sure the end-publisher of your work is also a VST license holder."

may even completely forbid open (source code) distribution, but I'm not a lawyer, so it's basically just guesswork. But to me it looks like it is at least definitely incompatible with GPL style and other shared source licenses.

So unless I'm wrong, the license wouldn't allow anything in terms of combining it with open source licenses that a fully restrictive proprietary license would. As long as that's the case, there is no functional reason to add official support - it would just be regarded as "proprietary".

[p0nce]

It is indeed incompatible with GPL. I'll go with "proprietary" which describe it well.

[s-ludwig]

You could use "VST", any unknown license will be treated as "proprietary" by default.

[p0nce]

Did that. Thanks for advice.