What is the license for this project?

adamvoss commented 6 years ago

LICENSE only says "GPL." Is this GPLv2 or GPLv3? Is there an "or later" clause?

RRP-support commented 6 years ago

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Note that our closure does not affect RepRapPro China Ltd (http://www.reprappro.com.cn/). That is a completely separate company (though we have obviously worked closely with them) and they will continue.

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dc42 commented 6 years ago

Hi Adam,

The RepRapPro version of RepRapFirmware is long obsolete. I suggest you look at my fork instead, https://github.com/dc42/RepRapFirmware, which is where most development of this firmware takes place now. I discussed the licensing with the original author (Adrian Bowyer) and we agreed on GPLv3.

Best regards

David Crocker, Escher Technologies Ltd.