This thread is now buried so deep there's not much point in replying further, and I was unable to log in the last two days. I think the main reason that Clother exists is so that Zew3D can get free advertising by posting extra textures in the Free Stuff section that can only be used with Clother. Otherwise it would be just as easy to sell texture packs and MAT files. Anything that would potentially crack open these "freebies" must be anathema. So it's not the textures that come WITH Clother that are the issue, it's the "free" textures. If these were really free, i.e. usable by anyone, the whole economic model would collapse.