Someone in the past asked this question, I’ve just run across the behavior myself trying to do it.
@MakerWorld I’ve downloaded and edited a CC-licensed model and want to upload it as a remix. In the interim since I downloaded it the author switched the model to the “standard” license. Trying to upload, Makeworld says
“Remixing is not allowed by this model’s license terms”
Which is correct for the current version, but I’m uploading a previous version which did allow remixing. Do I just upload directly and simply reference the original model in the description? Although unlikely, what happens if the author complains about my “unauthorized remix”?
There likely isn’t an original model to reference as the user has changed the license terms, maker world doesn’t really support proper versioning of a model so they have no real way to track which version of the license you have/had
They do support some semblance of versioning, if I had remixed it before the change my model would have had a system note on it that said (roughly) “this was remixed before the license changed”. But you need to publish your remix while the old license is still in effect for that to work.
The old license will always stay in effect if you downloaded it with the old license. If MakerWorld won’t let you and you really want to share it to the world, maybe upload it to Printables or something? Makerworld should really stop allowing people to apply stricter licensing to an already uploaded model
Highly possible that author of original part decided to make this part MakerWorld exclusive.
If model submission got changed by owner to MakerWorld Exclusive - Standard license got enforced. You cant have Exclusive and CC
But that is part of the issue. By default, it can’t be exclusive. If I downloaded it with a CC license I am free to remix and even share without any meaningful change under the original license. So @krellboy could even re-upload it on Thingiverse with the orriginal CC license and giving attribution without violating the original license. This makes it impossible to be ‘exclusive’ somewhere else. So in my mind MW should limit models changing to exclusive to models that always have had an SDF license. Making something exclusive that is already ‘out there’ after the fact is just impossible
Technically yes, but unless you’re willing to risk trying to settle it in a small claims court there is basically nothing you can really do about it
Realistically the owner is allowed to change the license, and while technically you are bound by the old license, you realistically have no way to prove it because there is no public version history for the model, MW isn’t going to prevent people from changing their license type as they are very much allowed to make it more restrictive, this would technically only apply to new downloads
There is no reason the 3mf couldn’t include a copy of the original license, but given the open nature of the file format there would be no real way to prove it wasn’t changed after the fact, this sort of licensing basically only really works on the honour system, nobody is really that interested in paying the court costs to attempt to fight it
Problem is the user is actually allowed to make the license more strict, it just wouldn’t apply that change to existing users, although realistically there is no real way for them to track this without versioning
Not helpful for your current problem but I’ve had similar and what I do now when I download a model is immediately publish a remix with something minor so I have a placeholder of my own. I then take my time to do my proper remix and if the original changes in the interim I publish my new one listing my placeholder remix as the design I have remixed (which is true) as this retains the licence and allows me to edit and reference it.
It’s not even possible to make text changes to a remix you have published when a licence changes in this way as it complains when you go to publish. I’ve noticed a spelling error in the past and have been unable to correct so I had to remix my model again and then change the one with the error to private. It’s all a giant pain in the backside.
The other option is look on printables to see if they have published their as well, they often have and you can use this as your origin despite it being „exclusive“ on makerworld (you could actually report it as existing elsewhere if you so desired if you were that wat inclined)
