Printables: How to set different licenses for countries or organisations?
Only thing I can think of, is to put a placeholder model in Printables, and have a website containing the actual files. However I think is not in the spirit of a model repository.
At least one country is trying to pass laws that require models to be sent to government cloud for scanning for "approved content" and I'm really not OK with this, and would simply prefer to just disallow licensing in that jurisdiction. Another country probably already does this, but Printables is not officially available there, so that kind of gets around it. I also have not published anything dual use (a dual use item is one that has application in both civilian and military such as a drone that can carry significant payload) but if I did I would flat out want to state that it cannot be used in wars.
RE: Printables: How to set different licenses for countries or organisations?
You could always place detailed license term in the description of the item. It seems a rather niche requirement to me. I would certainly be opposed to making Printables more complex (for the users as well as the developers) to allow for by-country license terms.
Items for military use which must not be used in wars? Yeah, well... maybe you should just not publish them anyway.
RE: Printables: How to set different licenses for countries or organisations?
What would happen license-wise if someone downloaded that model (and perhaps printed it) in country A and them moved to country B where you had different licenses for A & B? Doesn't seem very workable if you ask me. I suspect there will be two groups of people: those that just ignore the license and do what they want, and those look at the non-standard license and just decide to go elsewhere because they don't want to bother with it.
It is not easy to write a good custom license. There are just way too many cases you have to consider. Choosing anything beyond a set of well known and understood licenses is just asking for trouble.
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What makes you think that governments in those countries you're referring to give a rat's ass what the license says? If you publish it and they like it, they will download it no matter what the license says.
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RE: Printables: How to set different licenses for countries or organisations?
It may not matter much anyway, even if you disallow licensing of your models in problematic jurisdictions. There is an emerging trend among some of the US states that are passing or considering legislation requiring the gatekeeper software you mentioned, of suing creators living outside of their own jurisdictions, for what they consider violations of their laws. If you make a model available that would be illegal in such a restrictive jurisdiction, and a user therein downloads the model in violation of your license, I don't think that the restrictive jurisdiction is going to care what terms you put in your license. The only things that will matter are that they have unlimited tax money with which to fund action against you, and few citizens have the means to effectively fight against that.
To me, this is a lot more disturbing than a state, or a handful of states passing ill-conceived and technically unfeasible legislation targeting 3d printing within their own borders. You may live in a US state which has no such restrictions, be engaged in enjoyment of your legal hobby, lawfully collaborating with other enthusiasts. And because somebody in California or New York can download files that you have shared online, you find yourself the target of a lawsuit by another state, which you may have never even been to. Which you can't afford to fight. This is happening right now, to members of the 3D2A community who have broken no laws federally, or of the states and communities in which they reside. And I think it's just a matter of time before these states start bringing criminal charges against residents of other states. This may all get sorted out eventually in the federal courts (it violates multiple articles of our constitution, not just the 2nd amendment), but that will take years, and in the meantime they will ruin lives, and have the chilling effect which they desire.