Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"
On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 11:50, Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius@gmail.com> wrote:
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> You are mixing up completely unrelated things. Commercial entities and software coming from it have nothing to do with commercial activity.
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> The commercial activity is what *you* are doing with the software. It is completely irrelevant where you got it from or if you wrote it.
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> If you are doing commercial activity and are getting QT as a commercial product from a commercial entity, then it is *easier* for
> you - you can simply delegate the security responsibilities of that part of your software stack up to the QT commercial entity
> and you just need to take care of the rest of the stack, which you are *selling* to your customers (commercial activity!).
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> Whether accepting donations *in general* makes your activity in providing software a "commercial activity" in the context of
> this directive proposal is not really a supported notion in the text. There are a few specific examples of what does make
> a "commercial activity" in point 10, but none of those examples directly apply to general donations to a project or person.
I am not mixing, I think the current wording does not _exactly_ says
so, leaving a door open for abuse.
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