1) Some people are interpreting FCare's work to be a copy of Fixel's. That is NOT true. FCare developed his hardware and firmware independently but with some help from myself and Fixel. 2) I believe it was Fixel's idea for FCare to make his firmware compatible with the interface used by Fixel's menu. The interface was made public so others could build menus anyway so FCare could have used it regardless. 3) FCare has no explicit license in his repo for the hardware and firmware but as I recall told people openly to do with it as they pleased. I've asked him to put a license in the repo so it is more clear. 4) I think it confuses the situation to call forks of open source projects with "clones". FCare's work, and Fixels at some point in the future, are open source. You don't "clone" open projects you fork them. There is nothing wrong with doing so. It's one reason why "open source" (as defined by OSI) exists. Since there is no explicit license in FCare's repo there is no knowable copyright infringement happening. For all we know someone reached out to FCare about some of these forks. 5) Fixel's internal ODEs have been cloned. But saying FCare's work or those that forked it and sell variations harm Fixel is missing the fact Fixel and I helped with FCare's work and knew full well it'd be open.
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Let me fill in gaps / correct some things.
1) Some people are interpreting FCare's work to be a copy of Fixel's. That is NOT true. FCare developed his hardware and firmware independently but with some help from myself and Fixel.
2) I believe it was Fixel's idea for FCare to make his firmware compatible with the interface used by Fixel's menu. The interface was made public so others could build menus anyway so FCare could have used it regardless.
3) FCare has no explicit license in his repo for the hardware and firmware but as I recall told people openly to do with it as they pleased. I've asked him to put a license in the repo so it is more clear.
4) I think it confuses the situation to call forks of open source projects with "clones". FCare's work, and Fixels at some point in the future, are open source. You don't "clone" open projects you fork them. There is nothing wrong with doing so. It's one reason why "open source" (as defined by OSI) exists. Since there is no explicit license in FCare's repo there is no knowable copyright infringement happening. For all we know someone reached out to FCare about some of these forks.
5) Fixel's internal ODEs have been cloned. But saying FCare's work or those that forked it and sell variations harm Fixel is missing the fact Fixel and I helped with FCare's work and knew full well it'd be open.