**"If you owned SM, would you license something, (ie pay dearly for it) when it is already free to the end user? Would you license something that has yet to be adopted by anyone other than the creator?"**

Actually I am not sure DAZ has offered to "license" genesis for a $$Fee$$

For Example Neither MAXON inc. nor
the C4D plugin Writer Robert templeton had to obtain any special license from DAZ,Zygote,or Smith Micro to create a third party plugin that imports fully functional poser figures and have them operate within C4D as they do in poser
(morphing JCM,Conforming ,Mat poses etc).

However Robert Templeton undertook the Arduous& Daunting task( without any SDK from EF or SM) of deconstructing All of the poser formats and creating a plugin that supports them within Cinema4D.
A three or four year project IIRC!!

I  personally believe Daz  assumed that companies like Autodesk etc would come running with programming teams in tow to do the same for Genesis,after they won the prestigeous"innovation of the year" award in 3D world magazine.

Clearly they miscalculated.

"Bullet Physics Engine.
Under zlib license, free to use, distribute, etc. A guy that worked for Sony at the time designed it, and gave it to the word to play with. It is in lots of applications now from animation to weather simulations."

Maxon Finally adopted the bullet physics engine for their hard body dynamics system after years of complaints about their utterly unusable in house created Dynamics system.

Poser physic is based on a similar open source"ODE" physics engine called in via the open source Python programming language of course.

 

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