Cyber resilience act

[Tobias Morell]

Hi Paul,

thanks for your feedback. Very interesting.

I was wondering, whether the positions in the letter from September have been addressed in the latest draft from November in any way.

If we understand it correctly, authors of OS and non-profit projects are mostly off the hook. We probably haven’t looked as deep into things as you have. 

Cheers
Tobias



> Am 11.01.2024 um 20:07 schrieb Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org>:
> 
> On Thursday, 11 January 2024 15:30:18 CET frances.tait wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
> 
> Hello Frances,
> 
>> We’re planning a brief news item in our January Newsletter to alert people
>> to what’s coming down the line on this. We don’t want to take a position,
>> but want folk to know about it so they can prepare, and we’re gathering
>> links so they can inform themselves.. We wondered if KDE had thought about
>> it at all or have something to add.
>> 
>> Here’s a link in case you hadn’t heard about it.
>> 
>> https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230717IPR03029/cyber-res
>> ilience-act-meps-back-plan-to-boost-digital-products-security Cyber
>> Resilience Act: MEPs back plan to boost digital products security | News |
>> European Parliament europarl.europa.eu
> 
> 
> Yes: KDE is cosignatory of the letter written by the Eclipse Foundation:
> 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QM2m3OxMOI_WXM9JHQs2kvg0N8jcWLPHH2N5d8-nPcs
> 
> And we agree that the CRA, as drafted
> 
> 1. would reduce the number of OSS projects available to European SMEs giving 
> more power to large corporations; 
> 
> 2. wouled jeopardize the fragile equilibrium that benefits SMEs contributing to 
> European innovations;  
> 
> 3. by barring FLOSS projects from the market, would probably have the opposite 
> effect from that intended and would not improve the security of products 
> available to consumers.
> 
> https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/cra-should-support-open-practices-open-source-and-development-european-open
> 
> I hope that helps. Need more details?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
> P.S.: Belated Happy New Year!
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