New position statement from a large cross-section of the #OpenSource community (including both @osi and @fsfe) with final comments about what's wrong with the #CRA - tl;dr:

"legal responsibility should only be on commercial entities supplying the software in the course of a commercial activity"

https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/cra-should-support-open-practices-open-source-and-development-european-open

#FOSS #FLOSS #SoftwareFreedom #security #Europe #Policy

The CRA should support open practices of open source and the development of European Open source to the advantage of small and medium size entreprises (SMEs)

As the European Union is about to initiate negotiations between co-legislators on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), we, the undersigned organisations and contributors to leading European open source software (OSS), herewith express our utmost concerns about the consequences of the proposed CRA, and misconceptions throughout the EU legislative process.

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