Zev0 posted at 11:30AM Thu, 26 November 2015 - #4241076

Bigger market maybe...But again, who is going to support that version if it is not official? What if another Pauline shows up that can work in DOS? It is going to be a circus.

You're operating under the assumption that the new figure would be marketed as a Pauline at all. There's your mistake. The key is whether or not the existing Pauline figure is truly open source. If it actually is, you can do whatever you like with it.

If a person makes a figure from an existing open source figure, using only its geometry and adding their own original rigging, then it is not the figure from which the base mesh was taken in any meaningful sense. It would just happen to have compatible UVs, if the person making the new figure left the original UVs intact. Therefore, there could be many new figures, each with their own names (none of them being called Pauline), all sharing UVs. Those people that makes skins would be able to sell to owners of any figure based on Pauline's geometry. Whether you prefer Pauline from Smith Micro or Paige from vendor X wouldn't matter at all.