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What's the license of the files? Are third parties able to modify and sell them?
Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good...
What if the good is greatly dimished by not perfection, but something totally reasonable or even expectable?
Pretty sure it would be better if they didn't release anything at all. Then I wouldn't be breaking the law if I sold both their product and replacement parts for their product
You can still do that
Its NC. The license makes that illegal
If they released nothing you wouldn't be breaking the law because you wouldn't be selling it.
You still have to option of not selling it.
And just take a loss on the filament? That's dumb.
Good question!
It looks like Creative Commons non-commercial, according to the download page.
So no reselling. I wonder if that prevents print shops from renting use of their 3d printers from a customer who doesn't own a 3d printer.
From my understanding the last time I looked into this the way it works is that the printed model inherits the license. That means you can't sell cc-noncommercial models directly, but if someone contracts a print shop and provides the model they can still pay someone to make it due to paying for a service and not that product.
Though print shops seem to flagrantly violate this anyway without much issue.
I think its a gray area that will always be dependent on the geography, lawyers, and the judge.
Right. It's pre-emptive to prevent people from profiting off of 3d printed replacements.
That sucks