Take a look at #SFC's Principles of Community-Oriented #GPL Enforcement found here:
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html
While that's tailored to the question of GPL (as opposed to #LGPL or #AGPL enforcement), a universal principle in #copyleft enforcement is always to use litigation as a last resort. Take a look at SFC's #baltobu project; we want to get working solutions to users ASAP:
https://f.sfconservancy.org/baltobu
Cc: @geerlingguy
#baltobu has dozens of folks volunteering & showing up with *real work* already done. It's overwhelming but I'm also exercising my #FOSS community organizing skills for the first time in a decade.
One of my tenants is: “Have time for everyone”. Yes, we pros can all size up a contributor in 5 minutes & know they won't actually be much help.
But think of FOSS' long-term, not your project du'jour. That person may be a major help to another project a year from now — but not if you snub them now.
👀 what I've been doing past 12 days:
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-violation-response/
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/may/17/incomplete-corresponding-source-code-copyleft-agpl/
https://f.sfconservancy.org/baltobu
#Disturbing that Bambu behaved this way. They're ≈37% of #3Dprinting market. My discussions w/ experts indicate that Bambu leapfrogged *precisely* b/c they violate #AGPLv3.
#baltobu initiative is a sprint right now, but in the next few weeks, it'll become a marathon. It will take us time, but we will liberate the users' right to repair that #Bambu took away.
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.
Bradley M. Kühn