Software Freedom Conservancy (“SFC”) announces a new initiative regarding the software right to repair for users and consumers of 3D printers manufactured by Bambu Lab. After recent news of violations of the Affero General Public License, version 3 (“AGPLv3”), SFC staff began a comprehensive AGPLv3 compliance investigation of both the userspace software and firmware on Bambu's devices. While the investigation is ongoing, two specific AGPLv3 violations have been confirmed.

The Software Freedom Conservancy taking some bold steps to push back against Bambu’s blatant anti-consumerism via (amongst other tactics) violation of AGPLv3.

  • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Why not using donations to take them to court? Sue them and give money back to OG projects.

    • bluGill@fedia.io
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      9 days ago

      If they have a case a lawyer will take this for a share of the winnings. You need a few hundred first to send cease and desists, but if those letters don’t work you just add court/lawyer costs to what you are asking.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Until recently, it was thought that only the copyright holder(s) had legal standing, so unless you could convince them to get involved as the plaintiff you were screwed. I think recently they’ve come up with a legal theory by which any user who was refused the source code could have standing, but it’s a new enough tactic that AFAIK it isn’t very widespread or proven yet.

    • Nollij@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Part of the challenge here is that Bambu is a Chinese company. Which means you would have to sue them in China, with predictable results.

      You could try to sue them in e.g. the US, then use that victory to secure things like import bans, but that’s a very long, slow, and expensive process.