[PD] Revising Help Files
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at at.or.at
Tue Jun 23 23:25:42 CEST 2009
On Jun 22, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
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> Ok, a few more questions concerning help patches:
>
> 1. What is a PD-meta GENRE? Is there a list of them somewhere to
> choose from?
I think we only really talked about obvious ones, like VERSION,
AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, DESCRIPTION. Don't remember anything about GENRE.
Perhaps that's something like a category. TAGS might also be
appropriate.
> 2. For PD-meta DATATYPE, take "gatom-help.pd" as an example:
> should this list acceptable DATATYPEs like "bang float list
> symbol", or just the datatypes that are most likely to be useful for
> this object, i.e., "bang float"?
Hmm, donno, any record of such things would be in the pddp IRC chat
transcripts.
> 3. Are all of the internal objects inherited from pd-vanilla really
> GPL? I thought they were under the "Standard Improved BSD License"
> unless explicitly stating otherwise in the source code.
Yeah, what Frank said. Some externals are also GPLv3 or later, while
most are GPLv2 or later.
.hc
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> -Jonathan
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