Re: Call for vote: public statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"
On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 at 02:54, Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> wrote:
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> That would also be a consistent position: "as long as the source code is
> public under a DFSG-compliant license, the open source exemption should
> apply even to works produced for commercial gain."
>
> However, I do not think the EU wants an exemption this broad, which is
> why I see a risk that this threatens the model that systemd is currently
> developed under.
Yeah... maybe something like:
"as long as the source code is public under a DFSG-compliant license,
the open source exemption should apply even to works produced for
commercial gain, except the final user is in a direct contract with
the company developing it"
So: if you are using it for free, it still plain old open source. If
you are paying for it, it's another story. And yes, forgive my lack of
proper words for this.
> From my personal perspective on systemd, I don't care much, but with my
> Debian hat on I think that would be pretty disruptive.
Same here.
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