Will the European Cyber Resilience Act Kill Open Source Software? (fossforce.com)

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Not a big fan of the title (asking question in the title isn't a great idea) but the conclusions give a good summary:

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) represents a significant step in Europe’s efforts to enhance cybersecurity. However, its potential implications for the open source software community have raised serious concerns. Critics argue that the legislation, in its current form, could impose undue burdens on open source contributors and inadvertently increase the risk of software vulnerabilities being exploited.

New insights from GitHub’s blog post highlight additional concerns. The CRA could potentially introduce a burdensome compliance regime and penalties for open source projects that accept donations, thereby undermining the sustainability of these projects. It could also regulate open source projects unless they have “a fully decentralised development model,” potentially discouraging companies from allowing their employees to contribute to open source projects. Furthermore, the CRA could disrupt coordinated vulnerability disclosure by requiring any software developer to report to ENISA all actively exploited vulnerabilities within a timeline measured in hours after discovering them.

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[-] Nuuskis9@feddit.nl 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Mullvad VPN has a great blog about this:

[-] Feyter@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I do not understand how this should be interconnected. Why would the chat control law make Linux illegal? And isn't this a completely different topic? OPs post was about "Cyber Resilience Act" and like @zero_iq already explained Open Source software is explicitly excluded from this.

But beside this I thing the chat control law is a very bad idea that really need more focus in mainstream media.

[-] Nuuskis9@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

Wow so there's more acts in EU to kill the privacy. How nice.

[-] Feyter@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There are always all kind of directions and forces in all of politics not only in EU.

That's why we need to always watch the voted representants all the time. Sadly many people only see democracy as something you started to deal with two weeks before a main election...