HelmutK wrote:I thought you could use an image as long as it was a link to the original web site that hosted it and not to a copy of the image.
I'd have to read the license again to be sure. (And it's written in horrible legalise type text.)
But I wouldn't have thought they'd like hot linking either.
They are after all a business, they pay for their hosting with their adverts. Hot linking their contents and they have to pay the hosting/bandwidth fees and not get the revenue from ad display.
Since the people uploading the images (and retaining the original copyright) are solo doodle customers etc, would it not be easier to just seek permission to use the original files from them?
It might be that I was wrong and the "shall not copy" only applies to thingyverse content and not user content.