> there's a legal precedence "Precedent" is not a concept that applies to civil law. Its a common law tenet. > Claiming that open-source maintainers will get

> there's a legal precedence "Precedent" is not a concept that applies to civil law. Its a common law tenet. > Claiming that open-source maintainers will get fined 15M euro is scaremongering Read the actual legal document. The static, non % amounts are totally left to the interpretation of the regulator in the 'legal maximums' section of the draft law. It doesnt need to be full 15 million. No Open Source contributor would risk getting fined a few dozen thousand euros. Even a few thousand is too much for anyone who contributes to Open Source.