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171                          <h2>FAQ</h2>                          <h2>FAQ</h2>
172                          <p class="default">                          <div class="groupbox">
173                                  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
174                                  the mailing list.<br>                                  the mailing list.<br>
175                                  <ol class="default">                                  <br>
176                                          <li>                                  1.&nbsp;License<br>
177                                                  <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>
178                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.2&nbsp;<a href="#commercial_music">Can I use LinuxSampler for commercial music production?</a><br>
179                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.3&nbsp;<a href="#open_source">LinuxSampler is not open source, you are evil!</a><br>
180                                                  <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>
181                                          </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>
182                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1.6&nbsp;<a href="#ls_breaking_libgig_license">Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against libgig?</a><br>
183                                                  <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>
184                                          </li>                                  2.&nbsp;General Questions<br>
185                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2.1&nbsp;<a href="#aga">linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</a><br>
186                                                  <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>
187                                          </li>                                  3.&nbsp;Compilation / Installation<br>
188                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.1&nbsp;<a href="#install">What do I need to compile and install?</a><br>
189                                                  <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>
190                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.3&nbsp;<a href="#cvs_checkout">How do I checkout from CVS?</a><br>
191                                          <li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3.4&nbsp;<a href="#compile_cvs">How do I compile from CVS?</a><br>
192                                                  <a href="#compilarion_error">Compilation of LinuxSampler aborts with ...</a>                                  4.&nbsp;Setup<br>
193                                          </li>                                  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;4.1&nbsp;<a href="#examples_lscp">Are there example LSCP script files somewhere?</a><br>
194                                          <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>
195                                                  <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>
196                                          </li>                                  <br>
197                                          <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>  
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199                          <a name="commercial_products"></a>                          <a name="commercial_products"></a>
200                          <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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233                          by funding and thus increase development speed.                          by funding and thus increase development speed.
234                          </p>                          </p>
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236                            <a name="closed_source"></a>
237                            <h3>Will LinuxSampler turn closed-source?</h3>
238                            <p class="default">
239                            No, LinuxSampler will remain open source. Again, the commercial exception is just to
240                            prevent commercial exploitation by third parties that haven't contributed anything to
241                            open source projects.
242                            </p>
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244                            <a name="ls_license_change"></a>
245                            <h3>I've heard the commercial exception of LinuxSampler was added at a certain version?</h3>
246                            <p class="default">
247                            No, the commercial exception in LinuxSampler's license terms were there since day one.
248                            Even further it's not only there since the very first publicly available CVS
249                            (developer) version of LinuxSampler, that commercial exception was even already in
250                            Benno Senoner's proof of concept code called "EVO", which LinuxSampler was based on.
251                            There was even a rumour that we would have manipulated CVS history to "pretend" this
252                            exception wasn't added at a later point. Needless to say that this rumour is completely
253                            false as well. Think about it! We're a group of developers spread around the world who
254                            work on this project for fun and ideology in our spare time. Most of us contributed to
255                            various other open source / free software projects. Do you seriously think we would
256                            cheat on such an issue? Beside that you certainly find various people completely
257                            unrelated to this project who still have early versions of LinuxSampler and / or EVO
258                            and thus can confirm that this commercial exception was always there.
259                            </p>
260    
261                            <a name="ls_breaking_libgig_license"></a>
262                            <h3>Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against libgig?</h3>
263                            <p class="default">
264                            No! LinuxSampler does not "illegally" link against libgig, since the copyright holder
265                            (in this case of libgig) has all rights of his work and thus is not bound to his own
266                            license terms. The sole purpose of license terms is to grant other people certain
267                            rights to use the work.
268                            </p>
269    
270                            <a name="ls_breaking_license"></a>
271                            <h3>Doesn't LinuxSampler illegally link against other libraries?</h3>
272                            <p class="default">
273                            No, the only library LinuxSampler links to that has license restrictions regarding
274                            linking is libgig (<a href="#ls_breaking_libgig_license">see above</a>). Especially
275                            LinuxSampler does not break Qt's license terms, since it does not link against Qt at
276                            all.
277                            </p>
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279                          <a name="aga"></a>                          <a name="aga"></a>
280                          <h3>linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? gigedit? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</h3>                          <h3>linuxsampler? qsampler? jsampler? gigedit? libgig? liblscp? jlscp? ... hu?</h3>
281                          <p class="default">                          <p class="default">
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462                                  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.
463                          </p>                          </p>
464    
465                            <a name="runtime_error"></a>
466                            <h3>LinuxSampler aborts at runtime with ... </h3>
467                            <p class="default">
468                            Note: For <b>Windows specific runtime errors</b>, please have a
469                            look at the
470                            <a href="windows.html#houston">Trouble Shooting</a> section of
471                            the LinuxSampler Windows HOWTO.
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473    
474                            <p class="default">
475                                    &bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;"<code>gig::Engine error: Failed to
476                                    load instrument, cause: Unknown exception while trying to
477                                    parse gig file.</code>"<br>
478                                    <br>
479                                    Usually LS gives you a meaningful error message in case it
480                                    failed to load an instrument. However there might be rare
481                                    cases where LS cannot resolve the reason and you get an
482                                    error message like above. In this case make sure security /
483                                    user limits aren't set too low. You can list your current
484                                    limits with:
485                            </p>
486                            <pre class="code">ulimit -a</pre>
487                            <p class="default">
488                                    Usually most of those settings are set to "unlimited" on
489                                    most boxes. If this is not the case on yours, make sure that
490                                    at least the limits for "max locked memory", "virtual
491                                    memory" and "data seg size" are sufficiently high enough.
492                                    The exact value depends on the instruments you want to load.
493                                    If your security policy allows it, you could simply set
494                                    those limits to "unlimited" (see also config file
495                                    /etc/security/limits.conf and
496                                    <a href="https://bugs.linuxsampler.org/cgi-bin/show_bug.cgi?id=41">bug report #41</a>).
497                </p>
498    
499                  </div>                  </div>
500                  </td></tr></table>                  </td></tr></table>
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