Befaco Oneiroi and I don’t know how many other
commercial ports of Eurorack modules have adopted a EULA
instead of a GPL3+ licence, or that is implicit anyway.
What is noteworthy is that for some devs to sell you a Vcv rack,
they now sell you a licence to a plugin.
A licence that could change at anytime. A software update and you could be unable to use your
licenced product. Because the EULA shields them from future changes that might break its use.
This is dangerous territory.
Whilst on one side I embrace this new vision, I am also worried.
There are proper licencing that protect the creator IP without going the full lenght of
denying any kind of ownership, for a digital product.
Reason has changed its policies regarding old offline installers, and closed the auth servers.
Stranding thousands of old users that bought Full, perpetual licence.
Devs and Users got burned. Propellerhead got burned.
Light DRMs are not possible anymore?
Linux has light DRMs that works and don’t need TOS and EULAs “you don’t own nothing”
…
It’s a licencing issue.
I’m not pretending it’s easy and I don’t have questions.
This is just a mere observation of the landscape.
