4 hours ago, Scott Robison said:
To be clear lest that be misunderstood: The "legal issues" are simply "a third party, not one of the X16 principals, did design work in anticipation of a future payday, and is unlikely to voluntarily give up their design because their time is valuable".
That isn’t quite right. It’s actually pretty simple:
The X16 case design used an existing design as a basis to cut end user costs (as stated in the other thread and since the start).
I then designed changes to that to customise it.
We therefore cannot give out the full 3D files because we do not own 100% of them (we don’t own the basis / the original design).
Analogy: Imagine you wrote a song, and someone else added a new verse and chorus, then they gave your song away for free.
It also isn’t “legal issues”, just standard copyright law.
More clarity is in the other thread as I don’t want to detract from David’s goal of this thread.