I would love to release the code as GPL in the spirit of copyleft. After all I was given the samples in the same vein without any profit back to the original ma

I would love to release the code as GPL in the spirit of copyleft. After all I was given the samples in the same vein without any profit back to the original makers. They are so indifferent to their own work they simply ignore any email I send them about it. I really need some kind of sponsorship. I can't really afford to do a lot of work for free like managing pull requests or merges and tech support without sponsorship. There are so many great libraries I am curious how they attain ramen profitability. I know a lot of them would release their project under the following formula: 1. Make great code 2. Release code to the public for free 3. ? 4. Profit From being around here for close to 10 years now I've seen a lot of people complain of doing open source work basically for no compensation and them finding themselves on the hook maintaining software they no longer even use themselves. But others like curl seem to have some kind of backing and are able to continue indefinitely. I'm not greedy. I never thought this could make me rich. But I am really poor right now and need any help I can get. If I had $500 per month in sponsorship I could continue doing this work as long as I was physically able to do so. I have all kinds of desiring with this code including making an advanced GTK GUI that would greatly simplify the workflow and ease of use. I can think of so many cool things I could do with a gui like visual selections, humming a melody, adding harmony, multiple channel delegation, adaptive rendering, preview instruments and piano roll (or some other better notation system) editor. I can think of better ways of editing notes than piano rolls and sheet music. If you had any leads to funding free software please share. Thank you for participating in my thread. I made a couple new tracks you might find interesting including two I had never heard of before until I plundered the Lectern's midi files searching for dances: Grieg: Elves' dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6BB1hHYp8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6BB1hHYp8 Chopin: Mazurka Op.6 Nº1 strings quartet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2MRSh9ZoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS2MRSh9ZoA Mozart: Turkish March Strings Quartet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xojiUZUg7qQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xojiUZUg7qQ There are thousands of files like this! I think this tool could be great for composers wishing to preview their work and discover the ranges instruments play in. They could better sell their work to orchestra patrons that are looking for new work to play in concert or recordings. Sure the Penny Orchestra is cheap, but that is kind of the point. It could never replace real musicians no matter how good it sounds. Other solutions I found often sound really cliché and I don't think that is what they'd want to hear. Not to mention, it just seems to take forever to make anything sound great with them from what I've read.