Wow Keychron sharing all the industrial design files for 83 of their products is very cool. They're releasing it as a source-available non-commercial license but explicitly encourages non-commercial community modding and accessory development. This is also very encouraging from a right to repair perspective!

#MechanicalKeyboard #RightToRepair #SourceAvailable

@shom obviously they put it out as source available for that reason.

  • And whilst one may argue that this prevents "commercial use" unless they explicitly exempt #repair shops, this is definitely better than with #Apple where one has to go to shady online forums pay on an even dodgier site for schematics and hope the seller didn't scam one.
    • If it was my decision, everything sold in the #EU should come with those #schematics and design files per law, but yeah.

➡️ #Keycron certainly 👍

@kkarhan yes definitely a win for repair. Unless there's a mass manufacture of replacement parts going on I don't see how local repairs (3D printed parts style) would violate the spirit of what they're explicitly encouraging.