Today, we are releasing the full CAD files for the CORE One and CORE One L frames.
There seems to be a custom licence.
The Restriction: You cannot commercially exploit the design files (selling the product or remixes) without a separate agreement.
The Protection: It includes an explicit patent license grant, protection against AI data mining, and a codified Right-to-Repair.
Most of the linked article is about the licence.
There’s been a lot of talk about Prusa turning evil. Maybe it’s a good step back.
I think that it’s a reasonable license for them to protect their business while continuing to provide full access to the community. The single user would still be able to modify or even build their own clone, but a private company would not be able to just sell a copy.
In an ideal world where money did not exist this would be detrimental to innovation, but in the real world Prusa needs to make money to stay in business. And considering their competitors, I would much prefer them to stay in the business and as much ahead of the competition as possible.
They are already behind the competition and have been for some time
Yet a lot of those businesses lean on the work of prusa.
Friend of mine always used creality their shitty slicer clone for his ender 3 v2, then got a bambu and was amazed by all the settings and options, different supports etc etc.
Told him he should have switched to prusaslicer ages ago, which bambu’s slicer is based on and the sole reason its open source.
(Also, orca slicer > bambu studio)
Prusa has been fighting the enshitification of 3d printing so badly, they are going under while other companies are standing on their shoulders and pushing them under ><