Re: Possible violation of GPLv2 by VoronDesign

[Jean Louis]

* Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz> [2022-02-16 18:41]:
> VoronDesign's Voron-2 was relicensed on GPLv3[5] as original Free
> Hardware Design while being a fork of The RepRap 1.0 ("Darwin") released
> under GPLv2 and utilizing the CoreXY design by Liam E. Moyer[3] thus it
> violates GPLv2 as the authors of The RepRap 1.0 did not agreed to the
> license change and are not even recognized by the VoronDesign as
> contributors + possibly violating Liam E. Moyer's license to the CoreXY
> as they did not clarify the license for their work (Moyer contacted with
> request for clarification of the license, lets assume that being
> compatible with Free Documentation license as they encourage adaptation
> on the website and most likely is this work under MIT scholarship to
> require the use of MIT licensing).

You should give reference to understand what exact license RepRap
CorexXY used in the first place, before relicensing it to GPL version
3.

You should be very clear if you are speaking of GPL version 2 "and
later" or GPL version 2. There are important differences. 

Provide references above.


Jean

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