Attached Link: http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/license.asp

According to the 3DCafe Content Usage License Agreement, you can use the models and textures royalty-free in your images. It does say specifically, "If any of the datasets available on 3DCafe are to be used commercially, or altered in anyway to be used commercially, you must give proper and visible credit in your commercial product, (i.e., Models (Textures) provided by 3DCafe.com). You should make sure you're familiar with the licensing agreements for any models or textures you use, as some (especially freebies here), specifically indicate no commercial use. So as far as using their stuff in images, looks to me like it's ok to use 3dCafe's stuff as long as you give proper credit. As far as the Vue stuff, just because it came with the program, I wouldn't assume anything. If there is nothing in the manual, I'd post at tech support at E-on to be certain. Guitta may know the answer to this one. As long as it's images we're talking about...retexturing and selling the actual models is pretty much a no-no.

You might want to check in the copyright forum here; maybe just link to this thread. There are some folks who hang out there who are very knowledgable about this stuff.

Edited to add; If there's no readme in a particular file, best thing to do is contact the website you got it from and ask them for a way to contact the modeller; that way you can be certain you won't be doing the wrong thing unintentionally. But never assume anything!

Message edited on: 11/18/2004 10:28

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