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Under the EU CRA, open source maintainers have no obligations to anyone, unless they have paid contractual relationships with users. If anything, this means ope
by pabs3 1y ago
Under the EU CRA, open source maintainers have no obligations to anyone, unless they have paid contractual relationships with users. If anything, this means open source maintainers now have a revenue source; doing paperwork for things they are probably already doing.
https://lwn.net/Articles/944300/ https://lwn.net/Articles/944300/
https://lwn.net/Articles/1023306/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1023306/
- kazinator 1y agoPaperwork ... just the thing you get into open source for. What if you're not probably already doing those things?
- pabs3 1y agoThen you either continue to not those things (with no consequences, except maybe companies asking you to do them, maybe they will offer incentives), or you decide to do those things since they are a good idea anyway.