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<section id="sn-vst-plugins">
- <title>Using VST Plugins</title>
- <section id="vst-why-so-hard">
- <title>Why is this harder than it should be?</title>
- <para>
- The owners of VST (Steinberg Technologies, now owned by Yamaha) give VST
- away to developers for free. Sounds great, but they do not those same
- developers the ability to pass what they get from Steinberg on to other
- developers.
- </para>
+ <title>Using VST Plugins</title>
+ <section id="vst-why-so-hard">
+ <title>Why is this harder than it should be?</title>
+ <para>
+ The owners of VST (Steinberg Technologies, now owned by Yamaha) give
+ VST away to developers for free. Sounds great, but they do not those
+ same developers the ability to pass what they get from Steinberg on to
+ other developers.
+ </para>
- <para>
- This conflicts with the terms of the license for Ardour and several
- software libraries used by Ardour. Steinberg have said quite often that
- they are not opposed in principle to changing their license to allow
- redistribution, but as of mid-summer 2006, it has not happened yet.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ This conflicts with the terms of the license for Ardour and several
+ software libraries used by Ardour. Steinberg have said quite often
+ that they are not opposed in principle to changing their license to
+ allow redistribution, but as of mid-summer 2006, it has not happened
+ yet.
+ </para>
- <para>
- All of this means that it is <emphasis>illegal</emphasis> for anyone to
- distribute a binary (ready-to-run) version of Ardour with support for VST
- plugins built in. If you want to use Ardour with VST plugins, you must
- <emphasis>compile it yourself</emphasis>.
- </para>
+ <para>
+ All of this means that it is <emphasis>illegal</emphasis> for anyone
+ to distribute a binary (ready-to-run) version of Ardour with support
+ for VST plugins built in. If you want to use Ardour with VST plugins,
+ you must <emphasis>compile it yourself</emphasis>.
+ </para>
- <para>
- This is not a trivial undertaking; see our
- <emphasis>build page</emphasis>
- for a full explanation even without VST support. This page documents some
- more required steps for the build if you want to include VST support.
- </para>
- </section>
+ <para>
+ This is not a trivial undertaking; see our <emphasis>build
+ page</emphasis> for a full explanation even without VST support. This
+ page documents some more required steps for the build if you want to
+ include VST support.
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <section id="building-ardour-with-vst-support">
- <title>Getting a version of Ardour with VST support</title>
- <para>
- ... to be completed.
- </para>
- </section>
+ <section id="building-ardour-with-vst-support">
+ <title>Getting a version of Ardour with VST support</title>
+ <para>
+ ... to be completed.
+ </para>
+ </section>
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