Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Is it illegal-morally wrong to post a question on store product mat room nodes

grichter opened this issue on Apr 03, 2015 ยท 39 posts


bagginsbill posted Mon, 06 April 2015 at 10:01 AM

Note- In the license with matmatic, I explicitly state what copyrights I retain, and what I convey to you. For the most part what I care about is disallowing profit from copies of things I've published for free. (Scripts, shaders) All I require is that you can't charge for what I've given freely. You can charge for a prop or figure with the shader included (in whatever form) even though I originally wrote that shader. (in whatever form) By whatever form, I mean as a matmatic script or as a Poser mt5 or mc6 file, or as a screen shot.

This also applies to anything I've placed in a forum thread.

It does not apply to things I sell in my store, or to things I post on my web site, unless otherwise noted in the license agreements for whatever that is.

Occasionally I give up copyright. For example, parmatic is in the public domain.

Matmatic is not public domain and is protected by copyright. I give others the right to reproduce and distribute free copies of matmatic itself, so long as it is unaltered.

I also have stated in the matmatic docs:

Matmatic generates Poser material files.

Note in that is implicit the notion that I believe a script has even more to it than copyright. I think I not only decide whether or not you can copy the script, but also how you can use that script and how you can use the output of that script. I don't think I'm wrong in saying that you are licensing (yah for free, but still) the right to use my script.


Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)