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Permissive license open source is going to be fine, for now anyway. The problem is that the arguments cited in the OP also apply to small devs who can't afford

Permissive license open source is going to be fine, for now anyway. The problem is that the arguments cited in the OP also apply to small devs who can't afford an army of lawyers. Such regulation will spell doom for software start-ups and small shops. It's a pattern of EU law makers going after the little guy: VAT MOSS, GDPR, now this. Not much of a problem if you have an accounting department next to legal department on the same floor of your corporate building. A huge burden for a small guy who only have limited number of man hours to distribute between paperwork and actual work.

AlanYx 4y ago
>Not much of a problem if you have an accounting department next to legal department on the same floor of your corporate building. It's demonstrative to read the official EU impact assessments for a lot of their recent legislation. For example, the impact assessment for the EU AI Act estimated prior-to-launch compliance costs for a small business with one AI product at €400,000. But when you look into the assessment in more detail, that estimate actually excludes legal costs (not joking here). It creates a very uneven playing field for small innovators.