Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: A Question About the New Poser 5 EULA

6Dprime opened this issue on Sep 07, 2002 ยท 57 posts


Jack D. Kammerer posted Sun, 08 September 2002 at 1:29 PM

Well, I could understand adjusting the EULA in the event of a competitive program, though I probably wouldn't have made it as ambigious as it is. However, I see CL caught between a rock and a hard place with this. Their product needs content for it to be of value to the user. Otherwise Viewpoint/Zygote/DAZ products and a whole slew of others wouldn't have been bundled with Poser in the first place. Likewise, those Content Creators need Poser in order to make a living as well. A symbiotic relationship where one CANNOT exist without the other. CL need to make sure producers of product for Poser content can still make content to further the value of Poser, but at the same time they need to protect themselves against any unseen competitor that might arise. Yet with as ambigious as the new EULA is, I would be very wary of approaching CL if I was creating a helper program, such as Morph Manager or The Tailor. One thing that I know about many programmers is they like to shroud themselves in secrecy when they are creating their applications. Particularly if they intend to sell that application (The Tailor for example)in one of the online stores. Now, I don't think this would happen on the part of CL, but what if I was to create a helper application which would make something easier for the Poser Community and approached CL about that idea to ask permission. Not only do I stand the risk of being told, no... but now I also stand the risk of having my idea stolen from me with no form of compensation. To make matters worse, if I design that program ahead of time and am told no, I can't get permission to distribute it, then I've wasted all of that time and/or money having it created. Again, I don't think CL would do this, but it has been known to happen a time or two even in this Community. In a verified and understandable effort to try and protect themselves and a market that they currently own, I see that this new EULA may end up slowing or causing an end to 3rd party products being created to support their market. Regretfully, in order to make sure that I am not violating anything in the EULA, I wont be creating anything myself for P5. HOWEVER, I will continue to make supportive product for P4. I'd rather error on the side of caution, then error and find out that I screwed up something terrible and possibly get sued for it. The sad part of this is, I think there will be allot of content creators out there that think, feel and will do the same as me. Jack