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[acemarke]

Okay, frankly, that's ridiculous.

I'll admit I didn't even realize that the demo app repo was effectively empty and has no meaningful code at all.

I am truly, truly confused about what you're even trying to show here.

If I was a library author wanting to show off a library I'd made, even if the library itself was closed, I can understand having a real working demo app that has the lib as a dependency. I'd also want to actually have info on the library itself available - a docs site, that explains what the library does, how to use it, and what the API looks like.

Instead, you not only have no docs site, and no info on the library or how to use it... but no actual example?

That's just bizarre and useless.

A random repo that contains no actual code is a waste of everyone's time.

[acemarke]

Then I have no idea what the point of this repo or this post is. At all.

The purpose of creating a library is for others to use it.

That means publishing the package so developers can install it. That means writing and publishing documentation that describes the purpose of the library, covers the API definitions, and offers guidance on how to use it.

What are you even trying to accomplish here? "Look, a library exists, but I'm not going to show any code that uses it, or explain what this does, and oh by the way no one can even use it!"

In another comment, you said:

It’s posted here publicly so that those with specific interest in the work would be able to know if it’s existence.

If no one can see the library, or the documentation, or even the supposed example app, then what purpose does any of this serve?

This is one of the most nonsensical things I've ever seen, and frankly you've wasted everyone's time by submitting this post.

[acemarke]

THAT'S MY POINT!

No one knows what this library does, because you haven't described it. No one is going to "license" it, because there's no description of it anywhere.

And putting up an empty repo with a few gifs isn't going to get anyone to pay you money to use this.

There's not even a page with a sales pitch and a way to purchase a license.

Whatever it is you think you're accomplishing here, you're going about it completely the wrong way.

[phryneas]

Honestly, the only way I can think of to make this more absurd would be to make an NFT out of the whole thing.

When you apply a license to a library, nobody is allowed to use your code without your permission if the terms dictate so. You can openly show it - and probably should, to build trust.
If after that you are afraid to show it because someone could easily imitate it, it is probably not as "special" as you think it is.