Hallo, rodney hat gesagt: // rodney wrote:
I am hoping to sell a musical gadget to childrens' science museums and similar institutions.
Among other things, it uses PD to handle the sequencing of midi for the sound.
I am a bit unclear about the legalities of doing so because of PD's GPL license.
Pd is not GPL!! It's released under a BDSish license which basically allows you to relase a binary without providing source code. However some externals are GPL, so this requires you to release source for them and your changes under GPL.
I guess that what I need to do is make it clear in the sale agreement that the PD part is free and that no charge is being made for it.
Because the project will eventually run under windows (currently linux), it would be possible to use Max instead of PD.
Pd is free for all OSes.
How do Cycling74 handle that kind of re-sale stuff? They have playback only modules for max don't they? Do people sell Max projects in that form?
Better ask on max-msp list about this.
I'd rather use PD because it already works just fine, but I want to make a nice easy to sell package for the customer.
Well, you can include all Pd in it, which IMO is even nicer than just distributing a crippled version of Max/MSP.
Ciao
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