I'm just surprised that something as minor as attribution got you riled up
- should have put your name(s) on the silkscreen. Your comment about side
deal also struck me as a bit surprising - Oshpark is based on free sharing.



On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 2:03 AM Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:

> It was public from the beginning. Jayeson made it after I asked on FB if
> anyone could/would do so. I sent him the interface information and a
> working original sample, and eventually a whole not-quite-working model 600
> as a gift (shipping to AU was worth a lot more than the M600 even if it was
> fully working), and after a couple revisions he emailed me gerbers as well
> as created the
> oshpark entry, I built a set and tested them in a working M600, alone and
> combined with an original module in the same machine, and found no
> problems, posted some pics of my completed units and gave Jayeson permision
> to use them in his oshpark entry. I asked if someone wanted to design it
> under some form of open source license right from the outset. Didn't have
> to be public domain. I actually would have liked gpl or some version of
> cc-with-attribution myself, but public domain is certainly "gpl or free-er".
>
> I already articulated the concern, and the lowness of it's level, as
> clearly as I could. What part of "They are not violating any actual laws,
> because this pcb design is explicitly placed in the public domain. It's
> just that it would be at least minimally considerate to give a little
> attribution where they got something from." failed at that?
>
> It ain't the end of the world, but does something have to be the end of
> the world to talk about it?
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:11 PM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Never mind.  I see the fine print now.
>>
>> So..... it is now public.  What is the concern?   Someone is
>> commercializing it.  Price is less than oshpark.  Sounds like a gòod thing.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, February 25, 2019, Stephen Adolph <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How waa the design explicitly placed in the public domain?  Juat
>>> curious.  De facto via oshpark?
>>>
>>> The 2nd one not mine.
>>>
>>> On Monday, February 25, 2019, Brian White <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is this somebody here, or does anyone recogize or know them?
>>>> http://ebay.com/itm/113662788499/
>>>>
>>>> They are not violating any actual laws, because this pcb design is
>>>> explicitly placed in the public domain. It's just that it would be at least
>>>> minimally considerate to give a little attribution where they got something
>>>> from.
>>>>
>>>> They even (re)used the pictures right from the original oshpark listing:
>>>> https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/8HMgno1x
>>>>
>>>> The designer (and oshpark account) is Jayeson Lee-Steere and the
>>>> oshpark pics came from me.
>>>> The ebay seller is not Jayeson nor does he know them, so it's not a
>>>> deal he set up with the seller.
>>>>
>>>> Same seller:
>>>> http://ebay.com/itm/113662802362/
>>>> and the origin:
>>>> https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/V0tpeuMg
>>>>
>>>> That one actually says copyright right on it. I believe this one is
>>>> Steven Adolph right?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> bkw
>>>>
>>>
>
> --
> bkw
>

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