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.
It’s a partnership and the INDX isn’t a separate printer, just a new extruder, so it’s not like Prusa has no involvement. I would say “completely” is inaccurate here. If it were solely the effort of INDX, they wouldn’t need to partner with Prusa. There are other third parties that release mods for printers that aren’t collaborations with the original manufacturer.
If Prusa hired the INDX engineers from BondTech instead of partnering, would you still consider it completely separate? A company is just composed of current employees. At what point is it Theseus’ ship of development?
And that’s not even considering the CORE One, the recent CORE One+ update, the CORE One L announcement, the OpenPrintTag, et al. They’ve been announcing more new stuff in the last year at a faster rate than previous years.