I apologise Jamball, I misread your post. The non-commercial restriction on free stuff was introduced around about the same time as the stores. The simple reason for it's existence is to protect free stuff users against idiots who think thievery is fair dinkum when it comes to store sales. very very very very very very few people who give free stuff have a non-commercial restriction regarding images and animations. You made those, it's your right to sell them. I only know of a couple people (freestuff) and one (store) who require seperate licences for this sort of thing. The larger majority of the time people won't restrict the use of their items in pictures. OK, sometimes you don't have the time to mail them and wait for a response. So you compensate, you use a different file. However, to be prefectly honest it's safe enough to use the items in images. I can think of one occassion last year where someone got upset over not being credited in a commercial image for a single prop that was used. This is an exception. However, even if you don't have the time to fire off an email request, and you absolutely cannot find anything anywhere that will take the props' place or make it yourself I would say go ahead with the image anyway, but STILL mail the author and explain what has happened and why. It is a very simple and basic etiquette to do so. Very few of the files I give out have a non-commercial restriction. None of them have a non-commercial image restriction. I have had numerous people write to me over the last few years asking about files and their inclusion in images and animations - perhaps I've been lucky. I've never had anyone write to me asking if they can sell something including one of my files because the larger majority of store vendors know better than to do that. Anyway, sorry I was so short in the first post as I read as it as yet another attack on people who give freestuff files. As for Traveller selling his morphs on cd. Yes, but he's making even more available for free on his site. And the only reason he's gone over to selling them like this is because there were some unscrupulous people who used his morphs in store characters without requesting permission or offering some compensation even if it was just a credit. Theft is theft, and in the end it hurts the majority rather than the few selfish idiots who do it. Before the stores there were no commercial restrictions. The stores arrived, they're here to stay and people feel threatened that if they don't restrict their items they are going to find them added to some store thing. That's the main reason for the introduction of "no commercial use" I suppose hundreds of people around the world could re-write their readme files to say "no commercial use except for images" but then they wouldn't get a mail from people asking. I kinda like people asking me first, I think it's polite to do so. I have never restricted use of the items, but I do request that the user considers donating something towards a children's charity if they make money on something. I do not consider that to be an unreasonable request.