Well, what you see in front of me isn't actually what I have to do with this video setting
up for something else, but then some news dropped about the CR10
about creality and about the gpl Naomi Wu tweeted earlier, little going away
present from my 3d printing peeps.
Creality 3D], CR10s source code took a bit of work.
Naomi then linked to the CR10s, source code and in a rar file and tagged
A bunch of cool 3d printing people.
What's really cool about this is one, it's not, it's not some sort of reverse engineered
thing from a hex file
It's not some sort of Rom dump.
This is the actual Marlin source that creality used and then compiled to run the cr10s
and the reason the CR10s is important in this is because it includes the filament
sensor and it includes the power out recovery.
This is really exciting news because while creality makes great machines, they were using
Marlin and they weren't adhering to the license that Marlin was released under.
There's been some talk about how creality chose to go into business with a Beijing company
who was then doing the development and then handing them the hex files, which meant that
company was then not adhering to the GPL, which then meant creality was just using
stolen soft...
It gets really, really confusing fast.
First, before we go any further, I just want to say this is a massively great thing.
This is creality3d
listening to a community and then giving back.
Not only that, this is a Chinese company listening to a lot of western feedback.
Creality could've just ignored us.
Creality could have placated us and just went with the cr10 source that they released
through Naomi Wu earlier or they could choose to do the right thing.
I was privy to some internal conversations and it's very important to note that while
the community pressure was very, very vital in getting creality to do the correct thing,
it was Naomi Wu being the liaison and explaining to creality and Mr Chen and everybody over
there what the GPL is, why it's beneficial, what creality doing isn't correct and how.
Let's face it, by going legit with Marlin Creality then wouldn't have to pay money
to this Beijing software house.
Creality could in fact save money by going legit. In response to that tweet.
Chris Russell did ask if this was taken source or if this was freely given source and Naomi
responded with, they're trying, but none of the bosses speak English and there's just
a ton of things going on.
None of it malicious.
I've spent hours going over GPL with them and I'm still not sure it's clear yet,
but they responded to the community and plan to continue to do so.
That last part of Naomi Wu's tweet is just incredible and nearly gives me chills.
Not only did Creality listen to the community, they're planning to continue to do so and
they're planning to move forward.
That's incredible.
A Chinese printer manufacturer adhering to open source and welcoming community input.
This is fantastic.
One more tweet down the line
that I'd like to talk about.
Naomi Wu says, I think the boycott was absolutely the right tool, but for now in any videos,
rolling that back would be something I could show them as direct cause and effect and make
it clear it will happen again if things don't improve.
Creality is making an effort to listen to the community and to adhere to some standards
of openness.
I think that's great.
They gave Naomi the CR10s source code to give out and I think that is an incredibly
good faith gesture in wanting to continue to work with the community and to adhere to the GPL
I think Creality, sending a CR10s to Scott of the Marlin team so he can
do development on their machine is brilliant.
I think there's a lot of really good stuff going on and since Creality did put forth a
good faith effort in the CR10s source code and sending a CR10s to the Marlin development
team, I will remove the GPL violation thumbnail from the CR 10 review that I have and I will
remove the GPL violation text in the title and the description.
I think that Creality is leading the way.
I think Creality is doing a good thing and it's important to note the reason we're at
this place that we are today is because of two very important things.
One, community pressure on Creality.
I never called for a boycott.
In fact, I recommended you to just print everything and still buy their printers.
However others did.
Others made videos.
There was a global community pressure for Creality to do the right thing.
Second, I think we owe a huge debt of gratitude to Naomi Wu no one at Creality, I believe
is what she said, speaks English and for her to interface with Creality for hours about
the GPL, about open source, about Marlin, about ways that being open and using Marlin
and it's open standard could benefit the company and save them money.
It's great.
Naomi.
Thank you.
That's just a quick update from my end.
I think we're taking the right path here and if the path continues, it's.
It's going to be amazing.
Thanks for watching and if you didn't know, I guess now you do. Print all the things.
I love you guys as always high five.