I don't understand-- why you don't want people to edit the code? You say "since it is complex," but that doesn't make sense to me.
If by "commercial" you mean "proprietary", licensing it as GPL would take care of that (but not the thing about editing the code, of course).
Unfortunately, I don't know anything about the CC stuff.
-Jonathan
From: João Pais jmmmpais@googlemail.com To: PD-List pd-list@iem.at Sent: Mon, June 28, 2010 8:20:11 PM Subject: [PD] software license for pd general patch?
Hello all,
I'm doing last touches in a Pd patch that is a general tool to make click tracks. That can (and hopefully will) be used by any musicians, such as instrumentalists, conductors, composers, ...
The patch is/will be available free of charge, only paypal donations are accepted (or suggested). But I'm considering using a different license than the general BSD license I usually ship my abstractions with. Since it's a rather complex patch (and if I get any grants to continue to work on it, it might get even more complex), I would prefer for people not to edit it too much - although most of the people using it won't be able even to open the gop. Another aspect is to prevent anyone to grab the code and do a commercial version of it. Not that it will happen anytime soon, but it might be a possibility.
I was thinking of instead the BSD to use a CC license, the "Attribution No Derivatives" one - http://creativecommons.org/about/licenses/. Basically something that allows people to disseminate the program (even though is available online), but without them changing it (or not without my consent/knowledge).
Does anyone of you has any experience with this, or can suggest a more efficient way of thinking about this?
Best,
João Pais
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