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Post by felipe on Nov 5, 2008 10:55:44 GMT
hello i have one question, can i use asio4all in my profesional studio for making music for doing cd witch will be sold and music for a commercial use or is notautorized by the licence of your product ?
thanks
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Post by Michael Tippach on Nov 5, 2008 11:43:46 GMT
can i use asio4all in my profesional studio for making music for doing cd witch will be sold and music for a commercial use Of course you can! The limitations only apply if you want to sell on ASIO4ALL in some form or another. They do not apply to the end user, commercial or not. |
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Post by felipe on Nov 5, 2008 13:59:41 GMT
thanks for your reply, just one question more why steinberg don't give drivers like asio4all with them product?
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Post by zarty on Dec 1, 2011 9:40:28 GMT
I asked a similar question yesterday although I haven't had a response yet.  Anyway, I've been told that Steinberg are considering changing their licencing around ASIO so that their drivers can be distributed more easily as part of a freely distributed apps. Originally, they would have been restrictive about licencing purely for commercial reasons. Why invest in developing something and then give it away? However, in reality, allowing their drivers to be distributed freely if the app is free wouldn't do them any harm at all. However, they are taking their sweet time about changing their policy and, indeed, they may not change their policy anyway. I asked a question on VLC's forum (it's a very cool free media player that doesn't support ASIO because it would break licencing agreements) why they can't support ASIO4All... They responded that it wouldn't make any difference. I really don't get the reason why not. However, I am unclear how ASIO4ALL can get around the basic ASIO driver licencing issue? Surely, ASIO drivers have be involved at some point and therefore the same licencing constraint should apply? Oh, one more thing... I use another free media player called Foobar2000, which does support ASIO but this is enabled via an add-on by a contributing developer in the form of a DLL that you download separately (like all Foobar2000 add-ons). Not sure if being a separate add-on gets around the Steinberg licencing constraint? Perhaps someone will shed some light on these questions? Zarty |
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Anyway, I've been told that Steinberg are considering changing their licencing around ASIO so that their drivers can be distributed more easily as part of a freely distributed apps. Originally, they would have been restrictive about licencing purely for commercial reasons. Why invest in developing something and then give it away? However, in reality, allowing their drivers to be distributed freely if the app is free wouldn't do them any harm at all. However, they are taking their sweet time about changing their policy and, indeed, they may not change their policy anyway.