by Florian Idelberger In the fall of last year, the EU Commission proposed a new regulation to improve cybersecurity in the EU . Specifically, it focuses on minimum requirements for "products with digital elements". The current proposal would likely cause irreparable harm to free and open-source software, potentially isolating the EU software market from global open-source projects. Read More...
by Florian Idelberger
The Fedora Project announced that it changed its classification of CC0 for use in program source code. Free- and Open-Source software developers are not always fond of software licenses but see them more as a necessary evil. When they want to grant almost all rights away, within the limits of the law, they might choose a license such as CC0.