In-reply-to » The EU's Proposed CRA Law May Have Unintended Consequences for the Python Ecosystem (as well as the entire free software movement).

@prologic@twtxt.net Perhaps Eclipse’s article on the subject is clearer.. but the main focus on Python’s text is on the liability clauses: while it might make sense that if you buy a product with software (or a software product) the vendor should be liable for its safety, security, etc., that does not translate well to the free software world, and it will have a chilling effect if, suddenly you (as a free software developer) start being liable for the flaws in that software. Python folks point out (and I agree) that “Assigning liability to every upstream developer would create less security, not more”, Eclipse people point out that “Every open source license contains no liability clauses”, and argue that “It is the companies which commercialize the technology and make a business from it who need to accept liability and provide warranties to their paying customers, not the open source projects”.

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