Yesterday, I published an article on some of the rights that you can exercise in software freedom *even if* your upstream has violated the #copyleft license. While their violation *will* limit your options, ∃ many useful activities that you still have rights to pursue.

sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/ma…

While recent events inspired this, other situations are similar.

IANAL & TINLA.

#AGPLv3 #SoftwareFreedom #OpenSource #BambuStudio #Bambu3d #GPLv3 #AGPL #GPL #SFC #Bambu #FOSS #licensing #copyright #DMCA

Dealing with Incomplete Copyleft Source That Doesn't Correspond

Years ago, copyleft violations were often a mere misunderstanding; vendors intended to comply but made mistakes.

^{Software Freedom Conservancy}

And it‘s getting more interesting - @bkuhn of @conservancy gets involved:

youtube.com/watch?v=bNEL6syg6V…

#Bambulab #3Dprinting #agpl

@josefprusa on interesting reasons why #bambulab breaks #AGPL and threatens the community.
Basically: Keeping their code secret for (industrial) espionage because chinese law requires it.

So maybe don’t contaminate your network with a Bambulab printer?

(On twitter unfortunately, but here’s a link to #xcancel)

xcancel.com/josefprusa/status/…

#3DPrinting