Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products
Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products
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Philips debuts 3D printable components to repair products
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What's the license of the files? Are third parties able to modify and sell them?
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Let's not let perfect be the enemy of good...
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What if the good is greatly dimished by not perfection, but something totally reasonable or even expectable?
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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
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You can still do that
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Its NC. The license makes that illegal
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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.
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And just take a loss on the filament? That's dumb.
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You can always print another benchy.
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Good question!
It looks like Creative Commons non-commercial, according to the download page.
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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.
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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.
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I think its a gray area that will always be dependent on the geography, lawyers, and the judge.
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Right. It's pre-emptive to prevent people from profiting off of 3d printed replacements.
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That sucks
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