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1. galdor+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-12-29 19:46:01
Correct. I would be perfectly fine with some amount of control and liability proportional to the size of the company, excluding tiny ones as it is often the case.

With this new act, even selling 100€/month of support for a piece of software you are contributing to makes you subject to the full force of the bill (and the full force includes scary numbers, millions, with zero information on how precise amounts will be calculated).

We can only hope that it is not voted in this sorry state.

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2. Kon-Pe+c6[view] [source] 2023-12-29 20:19:38
>>galdor+(OP)
Yes, proportionality, or at the very least some sort of clarity on where the line is drawn. Nobody wants to be the test case that determines if something is commercial or not.

An acknowledgment that it costs some small amount of money to host a website for the code, or that you may from time to time want to hire someone to do something specialized (design a logo?) and need to raise some amount of money for that to happen.

By world-wide standards (though not necessarily by Silicon Valley standards) I am fairly wealthy and thus could afford to support a completely commercial-free open-source project out of my professional salary. And this would make my project liability-free in the EU. But someone else, who didn't grow up in the USA at a time when university tuition was cheap, would not be able to do the same and their otherwise-identical project is subject to legal liability.

How is that fair? Isn't this just going to further concentrate open source contribution and leadership in a handful of rich countries (that are mostly not in the EU)?

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