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Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"



Hi,

On 11/13/23 02:47, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:

Similarly, where the
main contributors to free and open-source projects are developers
employed by commercial entities and when such developers or the employer
can exercise control as to which modifications are accepted in the code
base, the project should generally be considered to be of a commercial
nature.

So basically this means Qt will be considered a commercial product
_even_ if it's totally open source (at least in the way we ship it in
Debian). Even more, it can even be argued that if we ship it _and_ I
get to patch it (we do), then I might be responsible for it, which to
me makes no sense at all.

It likely applies to systemd.

   Simon


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