published a news
item on May 18 about its response to violations of the AGPLv3 by Bambu
Lab in its 3D printers. The company has not provided the source code to
its modifications to a 3D "slicer" program that was released under the
AGPLv3 and it has also threatened Paweł Jarczak who created a fork of a
different slicer (Orca Slicer) released under AGPLv3 in order to interoperate with his
Bambu printer. Based on that, the SFC has created the baltobu
project aimed at reverse-engineering and reimplementing the Bambu code
while also hosting the Orca Slicer fork.
Bambu has behaved badly for years and made multiple, provably false public statements regarding the AGPLv3 and its requirements. The recent aggressive behavior toward Paweł Jarczak was a last straw for us: we have decided to launch a multi-pronged effort that will assist consumers and users in the short-term, and also work toward a long-term strategy to improve the software right to repair for all 3D printer consumers.