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Is compliance of software licenses a requirement of OSH Certification?

JohnCummings
Aug 26, 2018

Hi

Can someone tell me if being compliant with software licenses is a requirement for certification where software is sold as part of the product?

E.g can a 3D printer get OSH Certification even if it the manufacturer is not complying with the GPL license in the firmware?

Thanks

mweinberg
Sep 7, 2018

Hi John.

To be honest, that isn’t a scenario that was contemplated during the creation of the certification process. I assume this is not a totally random question - is there specific context for it?

JohnCummings
Sep 7, 2018

Thanks for the reply.

The context is that there are several 3D printer manufacturers that are using Marlin firmware but are violating the GPL license. I know that some manufacturers are looking at open OSH certification. I think it would be a strange situation if a printer was given OSH certification and was in violation of its software licenses. Creality is an example of a company which has a printer which has an OSH certification but some of its printers are violating the GPL license of the firmware.