Today, we are releasing the full CAD files for the CORE One and CORE One L frames.
There seems to be a custom licence.
The Restriction: You cannot commercially exploit the design files (selling the product or remixes) without a separate agreement.
The Protection: It includes an explicit patent license grant, protection against AI data mining, and a codified Right-to-Repair.
Most of the linked article is about the licence.
There’s been a lot of talk about Prusa turning evil. Maybe it’s a good step back.
Even the creator of the open source initiative has said that open source has failed and we need more restrictive licensing because open source simply is too permissive and has been aggressively exploited at the expense of the people, who it was meant to empower.
For me, source available licenses that are open source except specifically restricting for profit hungry, exploitative companies and corpos are with something like non-commercial clauses are fine for an end product. I use CERN OHL S v2, but I can’t fault people for going noncommercial like the entirety of the art and 3D printing world pretty much already are to protect themselves.