[LAD] Nekosynth, GPL, and commercial and non-commercial use.

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Just to clear up a few recent misunderstandings that have been aired on the 
list, I'd like to clarify my position on the various nekosynth plugins (that 
is, nekobee, nekostring, nekoplunk, the organ, and the as-yet unreleased and 
waaay unfinished Hera plugin):

You may use these plugins in accordance with the GPL for any purpose.  If you 
want to produce a piece of commercial hardware that utilises a version of my 
plugins, that's fine - but I'd like you to send me some demo hardware.  Toys 
are good, and you can be sure that your hardware will always be supported by 
the freshest versions of the software.

You may use these plugins on any recording, commercial or non-commercial.  If 
you make a shitload of money from a record where you use one of my plugins, 
I'd like it if you mention me on your website or maybe somewhere in the 
sleeve notes.  If you could see your way clear to providing a short demo (30 
seconds or so) that would be really great, and will earn you the right to ask 
for special custom versions.

You may sell copies of the software, as long as this complies with the GPL.  
In general, include the source if you've modified it, and leave my copyright 
message in.  Simple, eh?

On the subject of selling software, I'd like to offer the following range of 
products.

For £5/6.75EUR/US$10 you can get all the nekosynth plugins, in their current 
state, on a CD.  Not only that, but I'll throw in the full Subversion dump, 
all tagged-stable tarballs (even from before I was using svn), and the demo 
tunes.

For £25/33EUR/$50, you can get the nekosynth Producer Pack, which comes with 
some drum loops and six cans of McEwans Export.

For £50/66EUR/$100, you get nekosynth Studio Edition, which comes with the 
drum loops, 12 cans of Deuchars IPA, and some random electronic components I 
hoovered up off the floor in my studio.

For £750/1000EUR/(not applicable in US markets) you can get nekosynth Super  
Mega Fun Box edition, which comes with the drum loops, a Cheetah Telecaster 
copy, and a 1993 Ford Escort with six month's tax and a year's MOT (but no 
beer, because we can't possibly encourage drink-driving).

Finally, for the true enthusiast, you can order the nekosynth Ultimate Eternal 
Natural Beauty edition, for the low, low price of £36,000 (not available 
outside UK).  This has the full source tree, CNC-milled onto 8'x4' slabs of 
natural Ballachulish slate, packaged in mahogany presentation cases, and a 
free Leyland Roadrunner 7.5 tonne truck to ensure that you can take your copy 
of the source code with you wherever you go!

Now you can't say any fairer than that, can you?

Gordon