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