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license info: add clarification re: plugins to About dialog 

Also, it's "pointer-to-const-char"
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@ -271,9 +271,31 @@ static const char* translators[] = {
0
};
static const char* gpl = X_("\n\
static char const* gpl = X_("\n\
Ardour comes with NO WARRANTY. It is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it\n\
under the terms of the GNU General Public License, shown below.\n\
under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2.0 or any later version, shown below.\n\
\n\
Plugin Clarification\n\
\n\
The following states the Ardour developers understanding of the\n\
relationship between Ardour's license (GPL v2.0 or later) and plugins.\n\
\n\
For the purposes of this understanding, \"plugins\" refer to software\n\
dynamically loaded by another program, where the interaction between the\n\
plugin and the loading program (typically called \"the host\") is defined by\n\
a 3rd party API. Such APIs include (but are not limited to) VST,\n\
AudioUnits, LV2, LADSPA and CLAP.\n\
\n\
Since (a) any such plugin may be loaded by any host that supports the API\n\
and (b) any host may load any plugin that supports the API, we consider it\n\
self-evident that there can be no \"derivative\" relationship (in the sense\n\
of the GPL's use of this term) between the host and plugin.\n\
\n\
Consequently, Ardour may load arbitrarily licensed plugins, so as to cause\n\
interactions between Ardour and the plugin via a 3rd party API, without any\n\
implications for either Ardour or the plugin. In our understanding, Using\n\
such plugins with Ardour is not impacted in any way by Ardour's GPL licensing.\n\
\n\
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GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE\n\
Version 2, June 1991\n\