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The problem with giving a pass to volunteer work and not to commercial activity is that there is a lot of potential for loopholes. Like by having a nonprofit tied to a for-profit company.

Getting the spirit of the law into writing is tricky, and it will most likely improve over time. Closing loopholes and making exceptions when merited.

>>GuB-42+(OP)
Also many non-profits are big enough that you should absolutely apply rules to them. Think of Mozilla... It has very big and expensive products. And somehow just because they are non-profit and open source they should get away with murder...

>>Ekaros+63
well you could easily put regulations on whatever is delivered to paying customers.

so if you do pay for software you know which cybersecurity scrutiny is in place --- while no cost software comes at no warranties whatsoever.