Quote: "So if we change a TGC model completely, we can release it?
I don\'t mean the texture only, but the mesh as well..."
...the concern it that copyrighted textures will be spread around without proper permissions.
If a texture is completely redone, it becomes the artist\'s intellectual property. What an artist does with his/her work is their own business.
If a model is heavily modified, then the same effect is acheived. Operative words are
heavily modified. If a person can take your model and slap the original texture on it, and it looks fine, it's not modified enough.
Own It, Or Get Owned...