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About using other people's work

#1

Hi,

I was wondering, since Cabbage allows to reuse a complete effect written by someone else so easily, if it’s OK to do it. I’m in need of a reverb and I liked one made by @iainmccurdy.

I’m planning on giving him credit on the source and also by leaving a label with his name in the GUI. I rearranged the GUI so that it fits my canvas.

Do we have to do anything else (besides asking the author publicly for his/her permission)? My purpose is to use the code in an educational enviroment (college). All my work is ad honorem.

Thank you.

#2

As far as I am aware Iain just wants to be notified if someone is using his work. I don’t know if you need to add a GUI label to your instrument stating Iain’s code was used. I usually just credit Iain’s in my source code so others know that it’s his work.

#3

I’ll wait until Iain sees this thread to confirm then. Maybe groupboxes could have some kind of right-button tooltip showing an “author” attribute. Or maybe giving credit in the code is enough.

On a unrelated subject, I tried to build Csound and Cabbage in Windows and failed miserably. What a pain it is to build in that OS. I’ll keep trying and if I can’t I’ll start a new thread. I was wondering though, could you tell me what csound.cpp is?

#4

Hi Guillermo,
If you mention me in the csd that is fine. Good luck with the work!
Iain

#5

csound.cpp is a simple CLI of Csound that I build and package with the Windows installers. I do it so that users who download Cabbage also have a fully functional Csound too. It’s not called csound.exe so it doesn’t interfere with any other installed versions of Csound. To be honest I use it a lot as I generally don’t install the standard windows Csound package any more.

p.s. Windows is a beast. Perhaps you may want to look at using MYSY2? Steven Yi has done some work there for building 64bit Csound using it. Sounds like it might be a lot easier to build Csound this way in the future. The same toolchain should work for Cabbage.

#6

Thank you Iain! I’m a true fan of your work. :+1:

#7

Oh, I see. Do you have csound.cpp uploaded somewhere? I couldn’t find it in the repo.

I was using msys and mingw, but there were a lot of dependencies missing. I also had to modify some of the Cmake files because of -lpthread and include some other flag to avoid error: redefinition of ‘struct timespec’. But in windows there’s no devel packages and no repo, so you have to build everything or just trust blindly. Awful!

I’ll take a look at MSYS2.

Cheers.

#8

I have pushed through that file. It’s in the audiounit branch.