Since the EU is bringing an act , that needs the products distributed to be flawless , and it applies to open source products too , if a single of their contributor / donor works for a corporate , what will be the future of FOSS in europe with this ?

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[–] angrymouse@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nick from The Linux Experiment youtube channel made a video recently talking about that, for him and for me it's clear that this quote:

software developed or supplied outside the course of a commercial activity should not be covered by this Regulation

means that any open source that gets any work from paid personnel from a company interested in the project in any commercial activity is covered by the regulation.

Here is the timestamp of his argument, I'm not from EU so I have no idea how this kind of idea could be implemented, but the text seems clear to me and seems bad.

If that is the case projects would be obligated to reject contributions from any companies.

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[–] jungekatz@lib.lgbt 1 points 1 year ago

The law also keeps it vague enough , that it says employed individual , so they could be waiting tables and this will still apply !!