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FlashForge / AD5M_Series_Klipper

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This repo should be a fork #5

Open csstup opened 6 months ago

csstup commented 6 months ago

It would be a whole lot easier if this repo was a fork of the master Klipper repo here on GitHub. Diffs and changes would be a lot easier to track. And easier for the Flashforge developers too.

Please consider updating this repo to be a fork of the master.

nativeit commented 4 months ago

Just wanted to bump this, and ensure it's referenced on the related issue #9, which I had raised last week regarding Orca-Flashforge, and the ongoing violations of GPL licenses related to the Adventurer 5M series.

After I was provided with a link to the Orca-Flashforge repository (which for reasons that I cannot understand has been posted outside of this "official" Flashforge Github account), I moved my open issue regarding the GPL licenses to that repo, and closed the #9 under this one.

But I still want to reiterate that this issue is very much valid, and deserves to be addressed, and Issue 2 at the orphaned Orca-Flashforge repo as well as Issue 5154 on OrcaSlicer's repository are still very much open, and at least in the latter instance, contain much more detail on their GPL licensing violations, including information for running diffs on the relevant code bases to confirm what's being changed, and/or potentially left out when compared to the binaries they are distributing on their website.

@FlashforgeOfficial: I don't know why this is happening all over again, or why you seem reticent to engage with either your customers or the contributors who developed the firmware and slicing software you've chosen to build your Adventurer 5M series upon--but releasing wholly distinct, non-forked repositories that contain some single snapshot of some modified open source code that may/may not represent what you are distributing as binaries on your website is simply not going to cut it. Especially when you've slapped a restrictive EULA in with the software that violates the GPL licenses of their parent projects, as well as dozens of dependencies. Just do it right from the start, and you'll avoid these issues, while opening up a community of volunteers who will help you to grow and sustain these projects!!

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