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Didn’t they make an exception for open-source projects? https://opensource.org/blog/the-european-regulators-listened...

“Anyone opensourcing anything while in the course of ‘commercial activity’ will be fully liable. Effectively they rugpulled the Apache2 / MIT licenses... all opensource released by small businesses is fucked. where the was no red tape now there is infinite liability”

This is my current understanding, from a friend not a lawyer. Would appreciate any insight from folks here.

So you’re willfully spreading FUD in hopes someone will enlighten you?

The law is real. What emotions would you suggest are appropriate?

Open Source is exempt, provided you don’t make a profit: https://kevinboone.me/open_source_liability.html

So it applies to anyone who figures out how to monetize open-source contributions. Seems like a major issue to me. Not exactly something that makes Europe a good place for tech.

The US has the reputation that rich competitors will abuse the judicial system to sue you into bankruptcy. Still, a lot of people want to start their tech startup there.

Yeah, just the usual hn FUD about the EU.

Can you reconcile that with this sibling comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074070

I don’t have an opinion, just trying to make sense of contradictory claims.

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