Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: Not all of my concerns about the #EU Cyber Resiliance Act (#CRA) have been dissipated ...
Not all of my concerns about the #EU Cyber Resiliance Act (#CRA) have been dissipated - some aspects of its actual implementation are still a bit hazy.
But the biggest one seems to be addressed in the most recently proposed text (art.10):
"In order not to hamper innovation or research, free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity should not be covered by this Regulation. This is in particular the case for software, including its source code and modified versions, that is openly shared and freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable".
I'm reading this correctly it means that the new constraints won't apply to open-source projects, and the usual no-warranty/as-is clauses of our licenses will still be valid.
Any legal expert out there that can confirm my interpretation?
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52022PC0454
But the biggest one seems to be addressed in the most recently proposed text (art.10):
"In order not to hamper innovation or research, free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity should not be covered by this Regulation. This is in particular the case for software, including its source code and modified versions, that is openly shared and freely accessible, usable, modifiable and redistributable".
I'm reading this correctly it means that the new constraints won't apply to open-source projects, and the usual no-warranty/as-is clauses of our licenses will still be valid.
Any legal expert out there that can confirm my interpretation?
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52022PC0454