On the CRA, Mike was gracious enough to note in his first blog post
that, while Eclipse and a few other big shops might be able to
metabolize the overhead of all the
conformity/safety-testing-and-certifying that a regulatory regime
might impose ... most FOSS shops could not. But as he also notes,
this EU proposal probably comes from a place of good will: it's not a
deliberate attack on noncommercial / indie code development. In case
this didn't get mentioned in the thread, there's more of a discussion
of this ongoing legislative issue in Open Forum Europe channels.
Jamie usually from OASIS but personal views only here.
On 2/23/2023 at 2:39 PM, "Mike Milinkovich" wrote:
On 2023-02-20 1:36 p.m., Brian Behlendorf wrote:
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
What is a CRA? Assuming you don’t means clan
restoration act here…
Cyber Resiliency Act, the prompt for this thread:
https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2023/01/15/european-cyber-resiliency-act-potential-impact-on-the-eclipse-foundation/
For those who are interested in this topic, I've written a
second blog post[1] on the unintended consequences of the Cyber
Resilience Act.
I have also recently come to realize that the CRA needs to
understood as a companion piece to the revised Product
Liability Directive[2][3]. AIUI the CRA is the legislation that
makes the open source community _responsible _for the CE Mark
validation for all of its software, and it is the PLD that makes
the open source community _liable _for any defects.
I cannot stress enough how damaging these soon-to-be laws are to
the future viability of open source as we know it.
[1]
https://eclipse-foundation.blog/2023/02/23/cyber-resilience-act-good-intentions-and-unintended-consequences/
[2]
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2023/739341/EPRS_BRI(2023)739341_EN.pdf
[3]
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:52022PC0495&from=EN
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