SynthModules

> GPL on the code: Please read the license.  I've had almost a dozen
> people contact me now regarding using the code for commercial
> industrial designs they are working on.  This is not what I intended.

But it is what the people who wrote most of it intended.

>  I'm trying to PROTECT our code by using the GPL.  Does anyone have a
> better solution?  How about the Creative Commons licensing?  Thoughts?
>  I've spent a LOT of hours reworking the programs (adding the GPL
> header, contributing coders, cleaning up mistakes, making them more
> consistant, etc.).  This has taken a lot of time (something I honestly
> do not have a lot of) and if I need to rework it again for a CC
> license or ??? I can.  Let's hear your thoughts.  But please, *first*
> read the GPL.  
> 

I do not care if it gets used commercially. Your tried to use it commercially.

You have no intellectual property regarding the PSIM electrical design or any software not 
written by you personally.

> Grant, I spoke to you about adding the GPL *before* I did so. 
> Remember?  It does NOT in any way make it so the code isn't FREE.  If
> code is placed into the "Public Domain", it is FREE to use in
> commercial products and I do *not* want to see people start SELLING
> PSIM-1 programs like ROMs for the Mini-Wave.  That is totally against
> everyting I intended from the beginning.  I want the PSIM-1 community
> to work together to develop new ideas and programs (virtual modules).
>  Also, Grant... you have my phone number.  Why haven't you called if
> you have issues with this or emailed me privately?  Let's talk soon.
> 

GPL is fine, what is not fine is your claiming what other people donated for free as YOUR 
property. You are trying to do the exact thing you claim to be protecting us from.