Re: Which Windows SDK?
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:30 pm
Speaking as a layman in these issues:afarina wrote:of course, I managed to recompile Auadacity with Asio support.
It was not really as easy as claimed, indeed.
It is perfectly clear that the source code released on Sorceforge cannot include the proprietary code included in the Steinberg SDK.
This is the same for the other programs which I cited.
I was refering to the fact that it is "forbidden" to release a precompiled version of Audacity with Asio support.
First of all, such "prohibition" is probably lacking any legal value here in Italy, and generally in Europe.
Second, I really do not see what is the problem with the GNU license.
If releasing precompiled code containing portions of not-open-sorce code was forbidden, no Windows or Osx executable could ever be released..
Said that, what I am asking is to be allowed ro redistribute to my students the precompiled version of Audacity with Asio support. Nowadays, most of them do not have enough knowledge for being able to recompile themself...
Which is ecactly the same case as for the other programs cited:
The sorce code does not contain the Steinberg SDK, whilst the precompiled executable does contain it...
What license would you intend to provide your modified version of Audacity under? It must not violate GPLv2 or the terms that you agreed to when you downloaded the ASIO SDK. Regardless of the legal standing of software patents in Italy, in order to download the ASIO SDK you are required to agree to terms laid out by Steinberg and that is a legally binding contract.