Months ago, I saw youtubers insisting that Creality was going to start honoring open source license terms soon after actually shipping the K1 and K1 Max products to the general market. Did that ever actually happen? #3DPrinting#openSource
They took a month or so to actually post the firmware and give us rpot access to the printer. Before that, you basically had to use #CrealityPrint and their config, where they, for example, got the input shaping wrong.
They then posted the firmware, and you could easily get #Mainsail and #Fluidd. Then it happened that nozzles were crasging into beds, and they removed the firmware.
I first K1 had a problem. I rooted it, but something was wrong. So I swapped it for a new one with the supplier. Now that firmware isn't available anymore. So I had mainsail and Klipper on my first K1, but not on my second one. They are taking their sweet time to release it now as well.
So, nothing new, actually. Like the printer. Haven't had a failed print, and the quality is amazing, but the software side sucks.