bhoins posted at 4:32PM Thu, 19 November 2015 - #4239509

Just to be really clear here: DSON is an open format. An importer can be built just like for OBJ, LWO, FBX or Collada. It is entirely SM's choice to build or not build an importer.

It would be so if DSON documentation prominently showed some type of, e.g., Creative Commons Licensing like CC0. Lack of explicit licensing information is not public domain, it is a legal trap waiting for somebody to jump in. But JSON is free... you DAZ-hater! yes, JSON is free but DSON is an application of JSON and therefore potentially copyrightable by itself.

The fix, provided that DAZ management wants DSON to be adopted by other application (I decline any responsibility for damages caused keyboard/mouse/monitor by liquid emissions from readers mouths) is DAZ updating appropriately the documentation web pages. If DAZ does not do so, it is because they deliberately want to keep DSON licensing in a legal limbo, action indicating anything but openess.