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einpoklumyesterday at 10:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

The license doesn't apply to the things you print with it.

Are you miffed by the restriction on you selling derivative open printers?


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cwilluyesterday at 10:10 PM

Yes, because that's the thing that makes it open and able to survive the death or corruption of the entity holding the copyright.

yjftsjthsd-hyesterday at 10:20 PM

If nobody can sell me the printer or replacement parts for it after the initial vendor inevitably goes out of business, that's a problem.

mrsssnakeyesterday at 11:55 PM

As much as this is nice protect, and physical one so different things any, still you cannot give/sell some software/design/media and restrict who, where and how someone can use it (noncommercial, not in this country, not at that phase of moon) while calling it open source, public domain, or similar.

As long as softwsre isn't going to be proprietary, it is a good idea just shouldn't misguide about being open source.