Keith NasmanSep 30

I am VERY excited about this open source printer project. We are pretty light users of our HP inkjet printer, so much so that we've had ink cartridges dry on us, forcing replacement. The ability to refill cartridges would mean that I'd be able to set up a cron job to do a test print every once in a while to keep the cartridges from gumming up.

Not to mention being out from the "phone home" DRM/auto-update bullsh*t.

@pluralistic would be proud

https://www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer

Open Printer

Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

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Show threadJan AinaliOct 1
@knasman @pluralistic looks cool, but they are not using an open source license.
Show threadPatrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦Oct 1

@ainali @knasman @pluralistic

No?

Open Printer will use the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license for all of its files, including electronics and mechanical design files, firmware code, and the bill of materials. We hope that people will be able to repair, upgrade, and contribute improvements to their printers.

It's not GPL or anything, but it seems fairly open to me. (Though I'm not an expert on this, so if I'm wrong, please correct me.)

Deed - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons

Show threadJan Ainali
@pjohanneson @knasman @pluralistic No. The NC (non-commercial) clause is not compatible with the four freedoms (you should be able to use it for whatever you want) nor the definition of OSI (specifically criteria 6 No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor) https://opensource.org/osd
The Open Source Definition - Open Source Initiative

Introduction Open source doesn’t just mean access to the source code. The distribution terms of open source software must comply with the following criteria: 1. Free Redistribution The license shall...

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Show threadPatrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦Oct 1

@ainali

Ah, OK. Thanks for the clarification.