<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">But how do you close and distribute a Pd patch so it’s not viewable? Can you open a Pd patch distributed as binary?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I only found this:</div><div class=""><div class="_5x46"><div class="_5va3 clearfix"><div class="_42ef clearfix"><div class="_5va4"><div class="_6a _5u5j"><div class="_6a _5u5j _6b"><div class="_5pcp"><div class="_nws _6a _4f-9 _43_1" id="u_jsonp_5_v"><div class="_6a uiPopover" id="u_jsonp_5_w"><a data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-content="Public" data-tooltip-alignh="right" class="_55_p _517h _2agf _42ft _4jy0 _5vto _1zg8 _55pi _4jy3 _59pe _p _51sy" role="button" href="https://www.facebook.com/mviljamaa#" style="max-width:26px;" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false" rel="toggle" id="u_jsonp_5_x" data-testid="privacy_selector_1088082017879683"><span class="_55pe" style="max-width:12px;"><i class="sp_JSL5oQknjO4 sx_1986cd img mrs"></i></span><i class="img _3-99 sp_wHEbE8RoZQp sx_65afb8"></i></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><div><br class=""></div><div><div class="">How do I compile a Pd-patch to run as a stand-alone application?</div></div><div><a href="https://puredata.info/docs/faq/standalone" class="">https://puredata.info/docs/faq/standalone</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Matti</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 07 May 2016, at 19:53, Miller Puckette <<a href="mailto:msp@ucsd.edu" class="">msp@ucsd.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">In fact Max uses some Pd code inside it. I released Pd under BSD license<br class="">partly to encourage that possibility.<br class=""><br class="">Pd is also used as part of game audio engines (I think the first game to use<br class="">it was Spore, perhaps 10 years ago).<br class=""><br class="">So leverage away. Your tax money pays my salary (at least, if you live in<br class="">California it does :) so the product is there for you to use as you wish.<br class=""><br class="">cheers<br class="">Miller<br class=""><br class="">On Sat, May 07, 2016 at 07:14:49PM +0300, Matti Viljamaa wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I think if Pd was viable for many different users, it would be more attractive.<br class=""><br class="">Commercial software is sometimes better quality than open source / free. Which can lend to better tools being developed for the platform since there’s a commercial incentive.<br class="">Wonder e.g. why the Max platform is more popular, even if its commercial. Commerciality isn’t stopping people from using it.<br class=""><br class="">-Matti<br class=""><br class="">On May 7, 2016, at 12:08 PM, Pagano, Patrick <<a href="mailto:pat@digitalworlds.ufl.edu" class="">pat@digitalworlds.ufl.edu</a> <<a href="mailto:pat@digitalworlds.ufl.edu" class="">mailto:pat@digitalworlds.ufl.edu</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">So like you'd use like years and years and years of open source development for like your own personal gain? <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Patrick Pagano B.S, M.F.A<br class="">Interactive Media & Education<br class="">+1352.226.2016<br class=""><a href="https://patrickrpagano.wordpress.com/" class="">https://patrickrpagano.wordpress.com/</a> <<a href="https://patrickrpagano.wordpress.com/" class="">https://patrickrpagano.wordpress.com/</a>><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">On May 7, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Matti Viljamaa <<a href="mailto:mviljamaa@kapsi.fi" class="">mviljamaa@kapsi.fi</a> <<a href="mailto:mviljamaa@kapsi.fi" class="">mailto:mviljamaa@kapsi.fi</a>>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I’ve been thinking about the feasibility of leveraging Pd as a development platform for commercial patches. Sort of like some (e.g. Twisted Tools) are using Reaktor for developing commercial-grade plug-ins.<br class="">But instead of Reaktor I could rather use Pd, because it’s a more open platform.<br class=""><br class="">But if the development is for commercial purposes, there would need to be some sort of mechanism for closing the source. 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