Well, I can see your point, but I sincerely doubt if any company in the world would give a blanket reply in a public forum to questions of that nature. DAZ can't come out and say 'Yeah, it's fine' when they don't know what the product is, haven't seen it and don't know how much of their own work has been used to make it. To me, Dan's reply seemed pretty fair, and could be boiled down to 'You can use our products to create other products which enhance them, but you can't use them to create products which will be in direct competition with them'. I doubt you'd get anywhere near that much out of Bill Gates. mac