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122                          <div id="contents">                          <div id="contents">
123    
124                          <h2>FAQ</h2>                          <h2>FAQ</h2>
125                          <p class="default">                          <div class="groupbox">
126                                  Here is a collection of frequently asked questions. Please read them before asking on                                  Here is a collection of frequently asked questions. Please read them before asking on
127                                  the mailing list.<br>                                  the mailing list.<br>
128                                  <ol class="default">                                  <br>
129                                          <li>                                  1.&nbsp;License<br>
130                                                  <a href="#commercial_products">Can I use LinuxSampler in commercial hardware or software products?</a>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.1&nbsp;<a href="#commercial_products">Can I use LinuxSampler in commercial hardware or software products?</a><br>
131                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.2&nbsp;<a href="#commercial_music">Can I use LinuxSampler for commercial music production?</a><br>
132                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.3&nbsp;<a href="#open_source">LinuxSampler is not open source, you are evil!</a><br>
133                                                  <a href="#commercial_music">Can I use LinuxSampler for commercial music production?</a>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.3&nbsp;<a href="#closed_source">Will LinuxSampler turn closed-source?</a><br>
134                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.4&nbsp;<a href="#ls_license_change">I've heard the commercial exception of LinuxSampler was added at a certain version?</a><br>
135                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.5&nbsp;<a href="#ls_breaking_libgig_license">Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against libgig?</a><br>
136                                                  <a href="#open_source">LinuxSampler is not open source, you are evil!</a>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.6&nbsp;<a href="#ls_breaking_license">Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against other libraries?</a><br>
137                                          </li>                                  2.&nbsp;General Questions<br>
138                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.1&nbsp;<a href="#aga">linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</a><br>
139                                                  <a href="#aga">linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</a>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.2&nbsp;<a href="#no_gui">Can I use linuxsampler without a GUI as well?</a><br>
140                                          </li>                                  3.&nbsp;Compilation / Installation<br>
141                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.1&nbsp;<a href="#install">What do I need to compile and install?</a><br>
142                                                  <a href="#install">What do I need to compile and install?</a>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.2&nbsp;<a href="#compilarion_error">Compilation of LinuxSampler aborts with ...</a><br>
143                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.3&nbsp;<a href="#cvs_checkout">How do I checkout from CVS?</a><br>
144                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.4&nbsp;<a href="#compile_cvs">How do I compile from CVS?</a><br>
145                                                  <a href="#compilarion_error">Compilation of LinuxSampler aborts with ...</a>                                  4.&nbsp;Setup<br>
146                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.1&nbsp;<a href="#examples_lscp">Are there example LSCP script files somewhere?</a><br>
147                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.2&nbsp;<a href="#dropouts">I get dropouts (click sounds, noise), what can I do about it?</a><br>
148                                                  <a href="#cvs_checkout">How do I checkout from CVS?</a>                                  <br>
149                                          </li>                          </div>
                                         <li>  
                                                 <a href="#compile_cvs">How do I compile from CVS?</a>  
                                         </li>  
                                         <li>  
                                                 <a href="#no_gui">Can I use linuxsampler without a GUI as well?</a>  
                                         </li>  
                                         <li>  
                                                 <a href="#examples_lscp">Are there example LSCP script files somewhere?</a>  
                                         </li>  
                                         <li>  
                                                 <a href="#dropouts">I get dropouts (click sounds, noise), what can I do about it?</a>  
                                         </li>  
                 </ol>  
                         </p>  
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151                          <a name="commercial_products"></a>                          <a name="commercial_products"></a>
152                          <h3>Can I use LinuxSampler in commercial hardware or software products?</h3>                          <h3>Can I use LinuxSampler in commercial hardware or software products?</h3>
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185                          by funding and thus increase development speed.                          by funding and thus increase development speed.
186                          </p>                          </p>
187    
188                            <a name="closed_source"></a>
189                            <h3>Will LinuxSampler turn closed-source?</h3>
190                            <p class="default">
191                            No, LinuxSampler will remain open source. Again, the commercial exception is just to
192                            prevent commercial exploitation by third parties that haven't contributed anything to
193                            open source projects.
194                            </p>
195    
196                            <a name="ls_license_change"></a>
197                            <h3>I've heard the commercial exception of LinuxSampler was added at a certain version?</h3>
198                            <p class="default">
199                            No, the commercial exception in LinuxSampler's license terms were there since day one.
200                            Even further it's not only there since the very first publicly available CVS
201                            (developer) version of LinuxSampler, that commercial exception was even already in
202                            Benno Senoner's proof of concept code called "EVO", which LinuxSampler was based on.
203                            There was even a rumour that we would have manipulated CVS history to "pretend" this
204                            exception wasn't added at a later point. Needless to say that this rumour is completely
205                            false as well. Think about it! We're a group of developers spread around the world who
206                            work on this project for fun and ideology in our spare time. Most of us contributed to
207                            various other open source / free software projects. Do you seriously think we would
208                            cheat on such an issue? Beside that you certainly find various people completely
209                            unrelated to this project who still have early versions of LinuxSampler and / or EVO
210                            and thus can confirm that this commercial exception was always there.
211                            </p>
212    
213                            <a name="ls_breaking_libgig_license"></a>
214                            <h3>Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against libgig?</h3>
215                            <p class="default">
216                            No! LinuxSampler does not "illegally" link against libgig, since the copyright holder
217                            (in this case of libgig) has all rights of his work and thus is not bound to his own
218                            license terms. The sole purpose of license terms is to grant other people certain
219                            rights to use the work.
220                            </p>
221    
222                            <a name="ls_breaking_license"></a>
223                            <h3>Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against other libraries?</h3>
224                            <p class="default">
225                            No, the only library LinuxSampler links to that has license restrictions regarding
226                            linking is libgig (<a href="#ls_breaking_libgig_license">see above</a>). Especially
227                            LinuxSampler does not break Qt's license terms, since it does not link against Qt at
228                            all.
229                            </p>
230    
231                          <a name="aga"></a>                          <a name="aga"></a>
232                          <h3>linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? gigedit? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</h3>                          <h3>linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? gigedit? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</h3>
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