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Are you naive? Difficult to judge. Who knows, maybe they have a good intent. The execution is bad. This will put so much legal burden on anyone who contributes
by rad_gruchalski 3y ago
Are you naive? Difficult to judge. Who knows, maybe they have a good intent. The execution is bad. This will put so much legal burden on anyone who contributes AND accepts contributions. This isn't going to strengthen OSS in the EU. When this comes into effect, any company attempting to contribute back will have to answer a question: do we want to throw those devs under the legislative bus?
From the other perspective: am I going to accept a contribution from anyone who may be remotely connected to any company in the EU? Well, nope. I don't want to deal with that stuff in my private time just because some EU bureaucrat decided that accepting a contribution from a corporate contributor is now legally speaking a "commercial activity".
They will now hold a huge fat stick but there's no carrot. So when it's a commercial activity, can I have benefits like any other commercial entity? Say, claim VAT back?