hard off wrote:
^ the mail above is also an example of why i don't want to release my stuff so much.
all the patch is there, i am keeping no secrets. but still people expect me to do all the work to add features to something which i gave them for free and for which they can modify as they like.
i get the feeling that a lot of the pd people are connected with universities and get some income from there. but i am just a single person who does not have any such affiliation, and i just do pd to amuse myself. it does get quite annoying that everything i give to people, i get "feature requests" for. i am giving you the whole patch. you can modify it for yourself.
yup well said - except i can't say i have any such feeling for peoples individual financial containment.
to say someone is employed by here or there, means nothing to their output and the ammount of free time they are giving to such and such a project, so please don't make such generalisations in the future.
in terms of code then yeah, you are right, what you have distributed is a great resource for anyone to improve on, ecxcept.. if you don't release your work and give it a licesne then you are not really allowing your work to be further edited and redistrubuted.. (perhaps you are more worried that people will make better of your own work than you do yourself, but in that case who's the fool?)
i understand your frustration with endless requests for variation and improvement, but that is purely hypothetical and you can choose to ignore all requests for evermore
but i do agree with you that just like all the code in the repository a pd patch contains room for improvement and those changes only make the work stronger.
btw, your intial work was for me quite inspiring. thanks for the code..
cheers, dmotd