Hello everybody:
A few weeks ago I ran into a post (which I cannot find now) of this forum that said, just like passing by, that there are some limits to the usage of Pd-extended when making profit out of patches.
If someone wants, for instance, to play live using some flavour of Pd and has the chance to get some money out of it, or teach electronic music using it, or to make any device that runs Pd on some part of hardware, how do the licenses apply? Is is fair to make a living out of teaching / performing / making gear using Pd-anything?
I am aware that no one can 'close' the code to sell it or erase the comments (where the licenses are written) from it, and I strongly agree with that. Since I try to teach at the University using FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software) as much as I can, I am in some sort of blank when it comes to the, so to speak, 'business' world.
Since here in Argentina most of the people are still drifting aimlessly in cracked commercial privative software (both OS's and apps) I feel an urge to shed some light on these matters so anybody will know that there is an option if you cannot afford a commercial software license or (better) you want to be free from those highly restrictive contracts. There is no need to steal, crack or forge anymore. There is FLOSS.
Thank you all for your tolerance and, I hope, answers.
Sumidero.
Ps: I took the courage to introduce Pd to people at FLISOL (translated: Latin American Festival of Free/Libre Software Installation) Thank you all for all you've taught me. Links to pictures coming as soon as I get them.
