Move to non-forked vst3-sys crate - #236
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Thanks for working on this. One note for whoever picks it up: moving from the robbert-vdh fork to upstream RustAudio/vst3-sys doesn't change the licensing situation — both are GPLv3-only, so closed-source VST3 stays blocked either way. Now that Steinberg relicensed the VST3 SDK to MIT (Oct 2025, VST 3.8), the higher-impact move would be to the permissively-licensed generated bindings — coupler-rs/vst3-rs / micahrj/vst3-sys, both MIT/Apache — which the RustAudio/vst3-sys maintainer now recommends (RustAudio/vst3-sys#58). That's what would actually unblock commercial VST3 on nih-plug. I'd be happy to help test such a migration on a large multi-format plugin if it's on the table. |
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Previously the forked version of vst3-sys was used, due to an extra fix being implemented on the specified branch. However this has now been fixed in the main repo.
Using the forked branch means that we don't get some other fixes that were made in the main crate when using nih-plug, this one in particular would be useful to have as currently cargo deny complains about the license formatting.
In any case it seems simpler to move over to the main repo rather than maintaining a separate fork.