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On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Chris Cannam wrote:

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> If your interpretation was correct, then I could require Cubase to be

> GPL'd by writing a VST plugin for it and publishing it under the GPL.

> This would obviously be absurd.  In real life, a court faced with a

No, Steinburg wouldn't be held to the GPL... your user would.
Your users need special permission from you (the plug-in copyright holder)

in order to link your GPL program against a closed-source program.

Otherwise, it's your users who are making the violation.
For example, before Qt was GPL, the FSF issued a blanket permission and

retroactive "amnesty" for all FSF programs that have been linked against

the Qt toolkit.  They did this because they didn't see Qt as has having a

compatible license... but people were linking GPL programs to it.
Peace,

Gabriel
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