Debian

10 months ago • •

Debian
10 months ago • •

Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act bits.debian.org/2023/12/debian…

Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act

Debian Public Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act and the Product Liability Directive The European Union is currently preparing a regulation "on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements" known as the...

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"...The report confirms the Commission's proposal to include all products with digital elements. It underlines however the importance to ensure that developers of **open source** software are **excluded** from the scope if they are not receiving any financial returns for their projects."

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Hans-Christoph Steiner

in reply to Debian • 10 months ago • •

I'm still concerned but the Python Software Foundation's post about the #EU's Cyber Resilience Act (#CRA) makes me optimistic that it could work for #FreeSoftware. I do agree with the core idea that #commercial #software companies should be held more accountable than they currently are. The key is getting it just right so that anyone can write whatever free software they feel like writing, and share it on the internet, without having to get a lawyer first.

pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/01/C…

EU’s Cyber Resilience Act Passes with Wins for Open Source

Back in April, we wrote to the community about our concerns for the future of the open source ecosystem generally and CPython and PyPI spec...

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