Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled developer
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Right-to-repair feud gets aggressive.
  • nimble@programming.devEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    You aren’t understanding the GPL correctly.

    • The GPL applies to code built on top of GPL code, this is the viral nature of the GPL.
    • Anyone with a GPL license for the code can license anyone else, it does not have to come from the original creator. So Rossmann has a license granted by the creator of the fork. Also the source that Bambu Lab provide on GitHub provides a license as well.
    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      i’m using “on top” rather flippantly here, since orca is AGPL. but bambu may also have separate code running on the machines that is not agpl.

      • nimble@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Rossmann has only reuploaded the slicer fork, not any firmware (the article title is inaccurate). But yes, the slicer’s AGPL license does not apply to the firmware.