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Until July 17ᵗʰ, we'll direct1 newly initiated Sustainerships & SFC donations to our software right-to-repair work & efforts to resolve Bambu Lab's AGPLv3 violations!
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Help us reach this goal so we can dedicate long-term full-time SFC staff on our software right to repair work for 3D printers, & take action on Bambu Lab's AGPLv3 violations!

Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the right to repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and defend these rights through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft). Learn more.

Copyleft Rights in Violation Situations

Read our policy fellow (Bradley Kühn)'s new article that explains a few of the software freedoms and rights that you still have even when your upstream is violating the copyleft license.

News

Comprehensive Response to Bambu's AGPLv3 Violations

Multi-pronged Approach Will Help Users Quickly
while Seeking Optimal Long-Term Solutions

May 18, 2026

Software Freedom Conservancy (“SFC”) announces a new initiative regarding the software right to repair for users and consumers of 3D printers manufactured by Bambu Lab. After recent news of violations of the Affero General Public License, version 3 (“AGPLv3”), SFC staff began a comprehensive AGPLv3 compliance investigation of both the userspace software and firmware on Bambu's devices. While the investigation is ongoing, two specific AGPLv3 violations have been confirmed.

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Articles

Dealing with Incomplete Copyleft Source That Doesn't Correspond

by Bradley M. Kühn on May 17, 2026


AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware

by Bradley M. Kühn on April 16, 2026


Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one

by Denver Gingerich on April 15, 2026


What the FCC router ban means for FOSS

by Denver Gingerich on April 2, 2026


SCOTUS Declines to Hear LLM-Backed AI Case Regarding Copyright

by Bradley M. Kühn on March 4, 2026

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