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"OSI still recommends the Cyber Resilience Act should exclude all activities prior to commercial deployment of software and clearly ensure that responsibility for CE marks does not rest with any actor who is not a direct commercial beneficiary of deployment." @webmink #opensource @opensource

https://blog.opensource.org/diverse-open-source-uses-highlight-need-for-precision-in-cyber-resilience-act/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At the early stages of the legislative process, every time this was brought up people kept saying, "it's fine, they've excluded non-commercial open source". Now it seems there are problems with what might count as "commercial".

But at this stage of the process, the EU legislators can't make arbitrary amendments. There are two versions of the text now - one proposed by the Parliament, and one by the Council - and the final text must be a compromise between those two. It can still be rejected by Parliament, but that would be rejecting it in whole (and they won't do that).