Bambu Lab Has Been Violating AGPLv3 for Years, SFC Says
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The 3D printer manufacturer Bambu Lab is officially accused by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) of violating the open source license AGPLv3. This accusation follows legal threats against an independent developer. Faced with the outcry, the company has gone back, but the SFC has already launched a project to create free alternatives to the proprietary components of Bambu Lab, funded by the community.
Bambu Lab Has Been Violating AGPLv3 for Years, SFC Says
The GNU Affero General Public License version 3, or AGPLv3, is one of the strongest copyleft licenses in the open source world.Published by the Free Software Foundation in 2007, it requires that any software built on an AGPLv3-licensed project must make its complete source code available under the same terms.That applies even when the software runs as a network service rather than being distributed as a standalone binary. I say that because what…
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