Hey Eddie,

Daniel Olsen here from Project PAM. During the past few days there has been some confusion on what counts as open source hardware. People have been doubting our claim as being the world's first open source hardware DLP 3D printer. There are a few interesting conversations that we had on Twitter. I would recommend checking them out. https://twitter.com/ProjectPAM

The problem is there are a lot of 3D printers that claim to be open source yet when you go to find their source it's nonexistent or they say will release it, which is not open source instead it is their intention to one day be open source. The other problem we have noticed is that the wrong licenses (licenses for software like the GNU GPL) are being used for hardware designs, and even worse some don't have licenses. both of these cases are the same. The people who created the designs automatically have copyrights, whether they specify it or not, on that design and without a proper license no one else has the right to use, redistribute, and modify. Basically, there is nothing legally stopping the copyright holders from suing someone for copyright infringement.

What do you think?