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CrealityOfficial / Ender-3S1

This Source code for Creality Ender-3S1 Series,MCU and Screen
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Reminder of the terms of the GNU General Public License v3.0 #31

Closed rocket59 closed 1 year ago

rocket59 commented 1 year ago

"Permissions of this strong copyleft license are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights."

from https://github.com/MarlinFirmware/MarlinDocumentation/blob/master/LICENSE

wizardkitty commented 1 year ago

Creality seems to NOT understand this. I even asked support for it and they wouldn't budge even when told about the license.

There are other printers that need their source code open sourced from creality. But unless creality starts taking care of this fast there may need to be some enforcement.

rocket59 commented 1 year ago

I'm surprised the Marlin devs are seemingly unaware of this?

Pethical commented 1 year ago

Marlin's developers are constantly fighting these companies and occasionally succeeding, but they also need a lot of help from the community. Various influencers, blogs, and thematic sites should not recommend a product that violates these licenses. There was a similar case in 2018, when the entire community united against Creality and there were also some of the distributors that removed these products. Then Creality published the source and got another chance from the community. According to these, it did not learn from it, even though the community does not forget.

rocket59 commented 1 year ago

Thanks @Pethical. Also kudos to Creality for listening and releasing the source code for the remaining S1 printers!