I’d like to purchase some of the really nice commercial plugins, but I have a question about licensing. My first question was answered in an [earlier thread], but I’m still curious about the following situation. Let’s say I want to use one of the plugins purchased for a MOD device on another Linux machine as a regular LV2 plugin for a DAW (I understand some work would be involved, as an LV2 plugin must be modified to run in the MOD environment). Would I need to repurchase this license, or would the license be transferable/sharable? I suppose to some degree this would be determined by the developer, but I didn’t see any relevant discussions, so I thought I’d ask.
I’m not a lawyer nor part of the MOD team, but aside that it needs a rebuild from source to run it on a other architecture (CPU), from what I know how the license works (technically), it is strictly bounded to devices running the official MOD software.
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This is not possible. The license mechanism we have on the plugin binaries is specific to MOD units and requires the hardware in order to authenticate and validate. Trying to make a safe and uncrackable generic desktop binary is simply impossible, so we are just not even going to try.
The device itself serves as a form of DRM in the end.
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OK. That clarifies the situation a lot. Thanks for the reply!