Europe champions digital freedom and its open source community.

[eucommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu]

Europe champions digital freedom and its open source community.

We have introduced a tailored approach to boost open source development across EU countries and ensure it is safe from cyber threats.

We only apply security rules to software used in commercial activities.

We are also creating open source software stewards to support security with a light-touch regime and no administrative fines.

Find out more
https://link.europa.eu/Jc7hBy

[thibaultmol@en.osm.town]

@EUCommission Curious if anyone reading this knows, but is the problem of the original version of this program where it made any volunteer project into an unsustainable red tape hell business project now resolved?

[hagbard@corteximplant.com]

@EUCommission Frontex muss FOSS nutzen dann wäre alles gut und schön und toll auch

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@thibaultmol @EUCommission
"This is why only free and open-source software that is made available on the market, and therefore supplied for distribution or use in the course of a commercial activity, falls in scope of the Cyber Resilience Act."

Second paragraph of the link.europa.eu/Jc7hBy .

In short, if any FOSS app isn't offer commercialy, sold, etc. it shouldn't fall within the CRA.

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@EUCommission Awesome, I really like this.

Lets now repel the mess Digital Omnibus enables with the simplification of GDPR and think of more meaningful way.

(Or if we want to simplify regulations, lets first start with the regulatory mess regarding agriculture)

[jd557@blog.joaocosta.eu]

@thibaultmol@en.osm.town @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu also curious about this... From the announcement, I see:

[...] free and open-source software that are published, but not made available on the market [...], the novel legal category of open-source software stewards is introduced. These are legal persons who provide support on a sustained basis for the development of such products [...], and are subject to a light-touch and tailor-made regulatory regime.

So, I believe that if a volunteer project is big enough, the maintainers become "open-source stewards"

Open-source software stewards are subject to the obligations laid down in Article 24, notably [list of obligations]

And it appears that there are some obligations for volunteers... BUT:

In accordance with Article 64(10), open-source software stewards are not subject to administrative fines for infringements of the CRA.

So... Volunteers have obligations, but there are no consequences?

Not sure what to take of this, but I hope the EU doesn't punish volunteers just because their projects became too successful.

[707kat@mastodon.art]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116277691327823258

@EUCommission It's funny how this appeared right below this @Tutanota post about how there's people in the EU who are trying to force mass surveillance. Not very open at all.

#privacy #surveillance #FOSS

[kriom@framapiaf.org]

@EUCommission

And what about #ChatControl 1.0 ?
You’re not completely making fun of us, are you?

Tuta (@Tutanota@mastodon.social)

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