Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: New License Restrictions at the Store

fauve opened this issue on Oct 11, 2001 ยท 33 posts


fauve posted Thu, 11 October 2001 at 11:36 PM

I have just been going through the new additions to the Renderosity store, and I was surprised to find that two of the items (Yazoo&Yoda and Yuma, both by StefyZZ) have additional clauses to their licenses. One of the clauses, that a person posting an image using the textures to the gallery must be the same username who bought the textures from the store, makes sense to me. I assume it's an anti-piracy measure. But the second clause bothers me. It says that when any image is posted to the gallery using one of these textures, explicit credit must be given to StefyZZ. This bugs me because a lot more goes into making a good image than just the texture used on the figure. In my case, I often use versions of bought textures that I have modified quite a lot, so they aren't the same as the originals, and postwork changes things even more. Giving the person who made a texture or an item credit is a nice thing to do, but I don't like being forced to do it. Especially with a product that I have paid money for. This restriction bothered me enough that after reading the clause, I took Yazoo&Yoda and Yuma out of my cart. I love Stefy's textures, but I won't purchase either of her new packages because of the license addendums. Does this bother anyone else, or is it just me? -nemo