GPL3 licensed plugins can be used with closed source VCV Rack?

[nolente (Giampaolo Guiducci)]

@Doc_Angelo

What matters is the license, and if there are closed source parts in there, it isn’t fully FOSS licensed, which leads to the question of OP.

Yes, this is what my question is about. Maybe “Rack for DAWs” will be opensource as well and the source provided to those who will buy it and request the source? Just a speculation since GPLv3 (and not LGPL) is the racommended license for open source plugins:

Postmortem on Rack's GPL relicensing

Before VCV Rack 1.0.0 was released, its source code was relicensed from BSD 3-clause to the GNU General Public License v3.0. It’s actually more permissive than that. The license has a VCV Rack Non-Commercial Plugin License Exception so non-commercial plugins don’t need to follow the GPL, and it has a commercial licensing option so vendors can sell plugins without needing to follow the GPLv3. See Plugin Licensing for a summary of Rack’s license and LICENSE.md for the license text itself. Thinkin…