Legal Questions / Maybe Liscensing Question
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If I write a ruby plugin and a web dialog. Does it violate SU terms of use if we allow users on the internet to change the colors of the components on the models my company builds? Easy enough to do without sketchup if you just mask stills but we were wanting to show a rotating model. Thanks again everybody
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i cant think of anything that would stop you from doing that, after all the models are yours to distribute and do with as you like and your not distributing sketchup itself (as far as i can tell.)
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I have already read the TOS a couple of times (often to answer questions like this) and I am even a lawyer (although not in the "Anglo-Saxon" Law System but it's irrelevant in this case). I can definitely say that you wouldn't breach any terms with this. After all, even with the free SU version, you are allowed to work commercially and with a particular example, use dynamic components (created with the pro version) to say change colours on a component (like with Sang in the new, SU 7 templates).
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Sorry I've been out sick. I haven't been ignoring you guys. I'm catching up with my posts and PMs and I'll be responding ASAP
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If you don't mind discarding the "rotating model" part, you can get cool results with SOAP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLg3D_bi7lE -
SOAP does look interesting but what I'm going for is having an interactive color choice system for all of our models and it seams like with SOAP it would have to be set up specific to each model and we just don't have the time to invest in setting up SOAP every time. furthermore, I need to supply the user with a list of eight color choices, not allow them an infinite number of choices. Thanks for the suggestion though
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