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I guess they are marketing only to accomplished yarnsmiths, then. I don't know how well their business model works, and it certainly does involve less work than selling a physical product, but I don't see anything wrong with that. ...As long as they don't sue people over selling products made using the pattern that was bought, I guess. I feel like (at the risk of making another very loose analogy) at that point it'd be like buying stock photography and not being allowed to sell paintings made based off of it.