It is completely open, and they produce an installer for people or you can build it yourself from Git.
Can you help me understand now, if there is a bug in NVDA (which is under the GPL) and it causes me trouble, say, it can't read a webpage that I need for some government thing, I could now sue my screen reader, which is actually just a bunch of dudes hacking something together? Is that the new behavior that is enabled by this upcoming law?
Next question, if this is the actual state of things, why would anyone ever make anything open source and allow it to be distributed in the EU now? It sounds like, and please please correct me if I am wrong, but it sounds like you could sue the makers of The Gimp, for instance, if a bug caused ... what, your pictures to come out looking wrong?
> Someone, or some entity, will need to accept financial and legal responsibility for what the project does in consumer hands.
Here's a crazy idea, maybe that person should be the consumer?
Product liability excludes non commercial open source software, see:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/press-room/20231205IP...
As I understand, if you work making more than 90% of your income as gardener, but on free time develop OSS, you will guaranteed not liable.
But if you are professional software developer, and make for example 50% of your income from software, you will need some powerful proof, that OSS from case and made by you was not part of commercial activity.