The cartridges are a HP design. The CC license is the smallest problem here.
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ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They will use CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Which means it’s not open source, and no-one else can sell replacement cartridges, parts etc.
It might still be a good printer and enjoyed by some, but it really annoys me when companies mix these terms up, almost certainly deliberately.
_edge@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
utopiah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Isn’t it about documentation or design rather than code or hardware? Typically CC isn’t used for software or hardware.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
from their own page
Open Printer will use the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license for all of its files, including electronics and mechanical design files, firmware code, and the bill of materials.
utopiah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thanks I addressed that seconds ago lemmy.world/post/36926543/19781367 and my bet is that it’s an omission, so I asked on CS Discord just in case but yes people should be mindful of that before the crowd funding campaign start. Hopefully it’ll be fixed.
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
The only complex part of the hardware is the HP cartridge controller, and you have at least part of the work here: hackaday.io/project/…/details