I personally will not allow people in the EU to use any software I write going forward, I imagine other open source developers will take these steps as well.
> all blame/liability should lie with ... the provider of commercial software
Is precisely what the EU intend to do (according to the article - no idea how accurate it is), not put the liability on open source devs.
From the article:
> So, how is open-source software implicated? If a commercial software product causes harm, whoever put the software on the market will soon be strictly liable. You will need to prove that your code wasn’t to blame to escape the costs. But what if you’ve embedded open-source code, used open-source tools, or called open-source APIs? Under the pending rules, you’d be liable for any errors in those sources as well, regardless of whether you directly contributed or not. A license like the one Apache provides won’t help, since state-imposed strict liability isn’t a harm that can be licensed away by private actors. The user must be made whole, and that’s on you. Worse still, how will you in turn identify or sue the collaborator or collaboration that actually wrote the faulty open-source code to recoup your costs? In that case, the license you signed likely insulates your open-source partners from your claims.
Seems to me that you'll be liable for any issues.