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145                          <div id="contents">                          <div id="contents">
146    
147                          <h2>FAQ</h2>                          <h2>FAQ</h2>
148                          <p class="default">                          <div class="groupbox">
149                                  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
150                                  the mailing list.<br>                                  the mailing list.<br>
151                                  <ol class="default">                                  <br>
152                                          <li>                                  1.&nbsp;License<br>
153                                                  <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>
154                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.2&nbsp;<a href="#commercial_music">Can I use LinuxSampler for commercial music production?</a><br>
155                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.3&nbsp;<a href="#open_source">LinuxSampler is not open source, you are evil!</a><br>
156                                                  <a href="#commercial_music">Can I use LinuxSampler for commercial music production?</a>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.4&nbsp;<a href="#closed_source">Will LinuxSampler turn closed-source?</a><br>
157                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.5&nbsp;<a href="#ls_license_change">I've heard the commercial exception of LinuxSampler was added at a certain version?</a><br>
158                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.6&nbsp;<a href="#ls_breaking_libgig_license">Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against libgig?</a><br>
159                                                  <a href="#open_source">LinuxSampler is not open source, you are evil!</a>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.7&nbsp;<a href="#ls_breaking_license">Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against other libraries?</a><br>
160                                          </li>                                  2.&nbsp;General Questions<br>
161                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.1&nbsp;<a href="#aga">linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</a><br>
162                                                  <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>
163                                          </li>                                  3.&nbsp;Compilation / Installation<br>
164                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.1&nbsp;<a href="#install">What do I need to compile and install?</a><br>
165                                                  <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>
166                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.3&nbsp;<a href="#cvs_checkout">How do I checkout from CVS?</a><br>
167                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.4&nbsp;<a href="#compile_cvs">How do I compile from CVS?</a><br>
168                                                  <a href="#compilarion_error">Compilation of LinuxSampler aborts with ...</a>                                  4.&nbsp;Setup<br>
169                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.1&nbsp;<a href="#examples_lscp">Are there example LSCP script files somewhere?</a><br>
170                                          <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>
171                                                  <a href="#cvs_checkout">How do I checkout from CVS?</a>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.3&nbsp;<a href="#runtime_error">LinuxSampler aborts at runtime with ...</a><br>
172                                          </li>                                  <br>
173                                          <li>                          </div>
                                                 <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>  
174    
175                          <a name="commercial_products"></a>                          <a name="commercial_products"></a>
176                          <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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209                          by funding and thus increase development speed.                          by funding and thus increase development speed.
210                          </p>                          </p>
211    
212                            <a name="closed_source"></a>
213                            <h3>Will LinuxSampler turn closed-source?</h3>
214                            <p class="default">
215                            No, LinuxSampler will remain open source. Again, the commercial exception is just to
216                            prevent commercial exploitation by third parties that haven't contributed anything to
217                            open source projects.
218                            </p>
219    
220                            <a name="ls_license_change"></a>
221                            <h3>I've heard the commercial exception of LinuxSampler was added at a certain version?</h3>
222                            <p class="default">
223                            No, the commercial exception in LinuxSampler's license terms were there since day one.
224                            Even further it's not only there since the very first publicly available CVS
225                            (developer) version of LinuxSampler, that commercial exception was even already in
226                            Benno Senoner's proof of concept code called "EVO", which LinuxSampler was based on.
227                            There was even a rumour that we would have manipulated CVS history to "pretend" this
228                            exception wasn't added at a later point. Needless to say that this rumour is completely
229                            false as well. Think about it! We're a group of developers spread around the world who
230                            work on this project for fun and ideology in our spare time. Most of us contributed to
231                            various other open source / free software projects. Do you seriously think we would
232                            cheat on such an issue? Beside that you certainly find various people completely
233                            unrelated to this project who still have early versions of LinuxSampler and / or EVO
234                            and thus can confirm that this commercial exception was always there.
235                            </p>
236    
237                            <a name="ls_breaking_libgig_license"></a>
238                            <h3>Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against libgig?</h3>
239                            <p class="default">
240                            No! LinuxSampler does not "illegally" link against libgig, since the copyright holder
241                            (in this case of libgig) has all rights of his work and thus is not bound to his own
242                            license terms. The sole purpose of license terms is to grant other people certain
243                            rights to use the work.
244                            </p>
245    
246                            <a name="ls_breaking_license"></a>
247                            <h3>Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against other libraries?</h3>
248                            <p class="default">
249                            No, the only library LinuxSampler links to that has license restrictions regarding
250                            linking is libgig (<a href="#ls_breaking_libgig_license">see above</a>). Especially
251                            LinuxSampler does not break Qt's license terms, since it does not link against Qt at
252                            all.
253                            </p>
254    
255                          <a name="aga"></a>                          <a name="aga"></a>
256                          <h3>linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? gigedit? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</h3>                          <h3>linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? gigedit? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</h3>
257                          <p class="default">                          <p class="default">
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438                                  mlockall() memory" on the console, you are safe to run it as ordinary user as well.                                  mlockall() memory" on the console, you are safe to run it as ordinary user as well.
439                          </p>                          </p>
440    
441                            <a name="runtime_error"></a>
442                            <h3>LinuxSampler aborts at runtime with ... </h3>
443                            <p class="default">
444                            Note: For <b>Windows specific runtime errors</b>, please have a
445                            look at the
446                            <a href="windows.html#houston">Trouble Shooting</a> section of
447                            the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO.
448                            </p>
449    
450                            <p class="default">
451                                    &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"<code>gig::Engine error: Failed to
452                                    load instrument, cause: Unknown exception while trying to
453                                    parse gig file.</code>"<br>
454                                    <br>
455                                    Usually LS gives you a meaningful error message in case it
456                                    failed to load an instrument. However there might be rare
457                                    cases where LS cannot resolve the reason and you get an
458                                    error message like above. In this case make sure security /
459                                    user limits aren't set too low. You can list your current
460                                    limits with:
461                            </p>
462                            <pre class="code">ulimit -a</pre>
463                            <p class="default">
464                                    Usually most of those settings are set to "unlimited" on
465                                    most boxes. If this is not the case on yours, make sure that
466                                    at least the limits for "max locked memory", "virtual
467                                    memory" and "data seg size" are sufficiently high enough.
468                                    The exact value depends on the instruments you want to load.
469                                    If your security policy allows it, you could simply set
470                                    those limits to "unlimited" (see also config file
471                                    /etc/security/limits.conf and
472                                    <a href="https://bugs.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=41">bug report #41</a>).
473                </p>
474    
475                  </div>                  </div>
476                  </td></tr></table>                  </td></tr></table>
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