Description: Musings on the Eclipse Foundation, the community and the ecosystem
Musings on the Eclipse Foundation, the community and the ecosystem
In my previous two blog posts I discussed concerns with the European Cyber Resilience Act (“CRA”) which we believe will harm both the open source community and the innovation economy in Europe. But the CRA needs to be understood as part of a larger legislative framework. In this post we will examine the potential impact of the proposed changes to the European Product Liability Directive (“PLD”) on the open source community and ecosystem.
As in previous discussions I think it is important to note that the intentions of the PLD are good. No one can argue that the time has come to protect consumers from poor software. But at the same time, it is important to ensure that the consumer liability obligations are borne by the economic actors who deliver products and services to consumers, and not by the open source community which enables so much benefit to society by providing free software but does not share in the profits of the delivery.
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