pokeydots opened this issue on Jun 30, 2002 ยท 38 posts
DTHUREGRIF posted Sun, 30 June 2002 at 11:51 PM
It seems this thing has been blown way out of proportion. DAZ's license hasn't changed. It's the same as it has always been and under that license agreement, they could prevent people from distributing anything that has any part of anything that they made in it, including cr2's. They chose to give the community permission to do certain things because it benefits them as much as it does the community. They don't have to let you distribute any cr2's of their products, but they do. Of products like Vicki 1 and Mike 1, their clothes, etc. The permissions weren't given for V/M2 and certain other figures because the "product" as they stated is basically a morph package and by distributing the cr2, you would be effectively distributing the product. That's my feeling why they have decided the bodysuit is a problem (that, too, is their mesh and cr2). The bodysuit is basically the body mesh of the underlying figure with a few geometry changes to add in wrinkles, etc. I haven't tried this myself, but it has been effectively shown that the Tailor can approximate the V/M2 morphs pretty closely in this mesh because it is basically the same as the base figure. The more different the mesh is from the underlying figure, the more "distorted" the morphs seem to be. So using the Tailor to make Mike and Vicki 2 morphs on these pieces could be seen as transferring the morphs themselves. A few people seem to be upset because DAZ is selling a morphed catsuit on their site. Well, that IS their right. It IS their mesh. DAZ has never said you can't make clothes to fit the V/M2 characters, just that the bodysuit is too close to the underlying figure. As someone else pointed out, they may not have realized until now just how closely the Tailor can make the morphs on the bodysuit. So they have effectively revoked permission to distribute cr2's of the bodysuit with M/V2 morphs. They can do that. Their license hasn't changed at all and the agreement you make when you click "I agree" on installation does not tell you you can distribute cr2's. Let's not burn them on the cross yet.