zlacker

Why none of these articles (neither TFA nor the one you're linking) link to the actual directive is beyond me.

But here it is:

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2023/7393...

> With the aim of not hampering innovation: (i) free and open-source software developed or supplied outside the course of commercial activity, as well as (ii) the source code of software, should be excluded from the definition of products covered under the proposal.

>>dqv+(OP)
Thanks for linking to the actual directive!

In light of it, I think the article I found didn’t link to it out of sloppiness, because their summary seems reasonably accurate to me, and the fine article didn’t link to it because they want to spread FUD, as the text you quoted directly contradicts some of the fear mongering in the original article.

>>dqv+(OP)
Still not clear for me. What about a company open sourcing some libraries used in its product. Will it be liable? Or would this be 'supplied outside the course of commercial activity'

>>eggsbo+Dq
Take OpenSSL. Their open source product would be free of liability. Their commercial support offering of that same product would not be.