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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
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of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
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Plugin Clarification
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The following states the Ardour developers understanding of the
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relationship between Ardour's license (GPL v2.0 or later) and plugins.
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For the purposes of this understanding, "plugins" refer to software
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dynamically loaded by another program, where the interaction between the
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plugin and the loading program (typically called "the host") is defined by
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a 3rd party API. Such APIs include (but are not limited to) VST,
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AudioUnits, LV2, LADSPA and CLAP.
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Since (a) any such plugin may be loaded by any host that supports the API
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and (b) any host may load any plugin that supports the API, we consider it
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self-evident that there can be no "derivative" relationship (in the sense
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of the GPL's use of this term) between the host and plugin.
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Consequently, Ardour may load arbitrarily licensed plugins, so as to cause
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interactions between Ardour and the plugin via a 3rd party API, without any
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implications for either Ardour or the plugin. In our understanding, Using
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such plugins with Ardour is not impacted in any way by Ardour's GPL licensing.
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Preamble
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Preamble
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The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
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