[PD] PD as VST plugin, legal side (was Purr-Data Google Summer of Code opportunity)

[Julian Brooks]

'Confused, you will be...'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHQT3Omqtw

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 12:14, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Point taken. This is equally true of Python, though, and it is likewise
> not clear to me whether a Python program written by me, linking to a binary
> library built with VST SDK 2.4 (distributed by a VST2-licensed developer),
> would be subject to their decrees. I mean, you are allowed to continue to
> publish programs made with 2.4, but the vstplugin~ extern is not a program.
> And Pd the program does not use the VST standard, only the program I would
> write with it.
> Confusing.
> Chuckk
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 1:57 PM IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig at iem.at> wrote:
>
>> On 3/8/19 7:04 AM, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
>> > Pd itself,
>> > according to Wikipedia, is not a program, but a programming language,
>> won't
>>
>> according to LinkedIn Chuck Hubbard is director at the Canadian Pacific
>> Railway.
>>
>> what is Pd "itself"?
>> wikipedia says it's a programming language, which is fair enough. but
>> you cannot *run* any code in a programming language.
>> for running code, you need an interpreter ("a runtime"), which is
>> provided by the eponymous *program*.
>>
>>
>> gsmddt
>> IOhannes
>>
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