§ 2 GRANTING OF RIGHTS
1. Steinberg hereby grants to the Licensee a non-exclusive, worldwide, nontransferable license
during the term of this agreement to use the Licensed Software Developer Kit solely:
1. for the development of PlugIns/Application and/or for the development of an application
that can host VST PlugIns (herein VST Product),
2. publish, sell or otherwise distribute a Product under his own brand name that is using parts
or all of the Licensed Software Developer Kit.
2. In case the Licensee receives a preliminary version of the Licensed Software Developer Kit, the
Licensee is not allowed to publish any Product to the public using a preliminary Software
Developer Kit. The Licensee is only allowed to publish Products to the public based on a
Licensed Software Developer Kit which is not declared as a preliminary version by Steinberg.
3. The Licensee has no permission to sell, licence, give-away and/or distribute the Licensed
Software Developer Kit or parts of it for the use as software developer kit in any way, for
example, integrated in any framework application, on any medium, including the Internet, to any
other person, including sub-licensors of the Licensee or companies where the Licensee has any
involvement. This includes re-working this specification, or reverse-engineering any products
based upon this specification.
4. In case the Licensed Software Developer Kit is modified, it shall not be published, sold or
distributed without agreement of Steinberg. Furthermore, the naming of the Licensed Software
Developer Kit shall not include “VST3.6.0 SDK” or any combination containing the VST brand
without permission of Steinberg.
5. In case the Licensed Software Developer Kit is extended by additional code, it shall not be used
in any other description than “(Licensees company name) extension to the Steinberg VST3.6.0
SDK”.
6. The Licensee recognises the value of the goodwill associated with the mark VST Plug-In
Technology and acknowledges that such goodwill exclusively belongs to the benefit of Steinberg
and belongs to Steinberg. The Licensee warrants that it will not use the mark VST PlugIn
Technology on promotional merchandise, with the exception of demo versions of any of his
product making use of this Licensed Software Developer Kit. The Licensee warrants that it will
not use the mark VST PlugIn Technology on, or in connection with products obscene,
pornographic, excessively violent or otherwise in poor taste.
7. If the Licensee is developing a Product, that is using parts or all of the Licensed Software
Developer Kit, and this product is not published under his own name but will be published under
the name of a third party, this third party has to agree to be bound by Sections 2.1 to 2.3 and 3 of
this VST PlugIns SDK Licensing Agreement. The third party has to completely comply with these
provisions. If the third party is not in accordance with these conditions, the third party is not
allowed to distribute this product which is using parts or all of the Licensed Software Developer
Kit.
8. If the Licensee is planning to publish a Product under his own name or under the name of a third
party, that is using parts or all of the Licensed Software Developer Kit, the Licensee is under the
obligation to inform Steinberg about it by sending the signed ‘Steinberg VST Plug-In SDK
Licensing Agreement’ to Steinberg, either by mail, or by fax.
§ 3 COPYRIGHTS NOTICE, USE OF TRADEMARKS
If the Licensee is publishing a Product under his own name that is using parts or all of the Licensed
Software Developer Kit, the Licensee shall be under an obligation to refer to Steinberg’s
copyrights and trademarks in the following way:
a) In case that the Licensee is publishing a 'boxed product', the Licensee shall display in a visible
manner the VST Logo and Steinberg’s copyright notice on the packages. Steinberg's copyrights
notice: ”VST is a trademark and software of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH”
b) In case that the Product is published without a physical packages (e.g. download), The Licensee
shall display the VST Logo and Steinberg's copyrights notice on the Licensee's website in the
