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by stavros 26 days ago
Of course it's not open source, there's no source to even be open or closed yet! It is Creative Commons, though, which is different.
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It may be using a CC license, but nothing that's marked NC is meaningfully part of the commons. Yes, some guy can make a part to fix his printer, but that guy can't sell those parts to other people.

The existence of a service manual doesn't mean you can get parts once the company disappears or loses interest.