EU: Proposed liability rules will harm Free Software
The main debate happens around the Cyber Resilience Act. We will therefore discuss the risks and solutions using this Act as an example.
While we welcome the discussion on more cyber security we doubt that the introduction of liability alone will lead to more cyber security. Especially in Free Software, far-reaching security measures are already in place. Those measures differ from those of proprietary software.
The proposal to exclude Free Software “outside the course of a commercial activity” would fail to address a large part of software that will not be covered but is deployed. At the same time smaller and non-profit projects would be harmed as they would have to bear major costs.