Well, though I do believe that it was good to check on it, if they decide that everyone who is using these feeds will need to license them, they are definitely going to tick off a lot of people at this point should they decide to enforce it. Besides the feeds, their website has literally invited millions of people to use their widgets on all manner of sites like Facebook, Wordpress, Blogs, etc., along with a bunch of other different types of sites. In fact, their widgets work fine in a TP html/javascript block as well and use by TP users would just be a small tip of the iceberg. One of their widgets, as I said, works in a block (Scroll to the bottom on on my test site ~
http://talesofthehavenexpanse.com/smf2test/index.php)
While I haven't read their full terms of use (
http://dilbert.com/terms/) on their site because it's so long and involved, I got the idea that licensing in their mind had to do with stuff like how many mugs were imprinted with a particular strip and passed out at a company's annual convention, and stuff like that. I think if they decide to change things up now for individual strips that are generally shown once on a website, they are definitely going to have their hands full.
ZarPrime