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justLV / onju-voice

A hackable AI home assistant platform
MIT License
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Copycat PCB seller? #54

Open Nick2253 opened 7 months ago

Nick2253 commented 7 months ago

While doing some research on the Nest Mini's PCB, I stumbled across this website, which appears to be selling a branded version of the Onju Voice PCB: https://tritone-echo.com/product/tritone-echo-pcb/

It looks like they're blatantly ripping your (@justLV) work here, so I wanted to bring it to your attention. The license in this Repo is the MIT license, but you have the PCBs labeled as CC-NC, and that would appear to be in direct conflict with what this company is doing.

justLV commented 7 months ago

Ha, good find. The MIT license is explicitly for the software.

The license on the PCB is CC-NC-BY-4.0, it's also specified as that on PCBWay where the gerbers are downloadable.

Interesting they just photoshopped the image to take that off and add their own logo, didn't even do their own builds and photography...

jmorris644 commented 7 months ago

I sent them a little nasty contact form message using my junk email account. :)

LionHeart55 commented 6 months ago

If you don't mind me asking. I ordered the boards and they came without components. PCBWay responds that they don't have plans for the components. Could anyone please elaborate on the completion of the Hardware after getting the empty boards. "The order you placed is PCB order which is only for bare board. The author does not share BOM for assembly."

Nick2253 commented 6 months ago

@LionHeart55 You should really post your question in the PCB order thread #8

However, my guess is that you got the PCBs exactly as you ordered them. On the project page, you have to select "PCB+Assembly" and not just "PCB".

To understand a bit more about how PCBway and these other companies work, when you order something from them, you don't just "pick from the catalog". You submit a full set of files that specify the PCB, a Bill of Materials if appropriate, placement instructions, etc. However, for the average Joe, this is very difficult to figure out. So PCBWay created PCBWay projects (aka PCBWay+) where creators like @justLV can upload all of these files, along with descriptions and pictures, and integrate it with the PCBWay ordering system, so it's a "single" click operation to upload all of these files into an order. This makes it really easy for people with no PCB design skills to buy useful PCBs.

So, if you look back at the project page, you'll see the options just above "Add to cart". When you click add to card, PCBWay+ packages all the appropriate files (based on your selection) into an order, and makes that available for you to buy through the PCBWay ordering system.