Here's why #ProductLiabilityDirective and #CyberResilienceAct are closely related:

"According to the text, a product is considered defective “when it does not provide the safety an average person is entitled to expect, which is also required under Union or national law.”"

"[..] a product’s defect is to be evaluated against mandatory product safety requirements, including cybersecurity standards for connected devices as set out in national legislation or EU law like the Cyber Resilience Act."

The #OpenSource community spoke, and we heard! Our amendments to the #CyberResilienceAct (and soon, the #ProductLiabilityDirective)
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RT @karmel80
Dear #opensource community: You spoke, and we heard you: protecting open-source developers in the Product Liability Directive and Cyber Resilience Act https://karenmelchior.eu/en/you-spoke-and-we-heard-you-protecting-open-source-developers-in-the-cra-and-pld/
https://twitter.com/karmel80/status/1651454826767630337

Key MEPs propose narrowing down EU’s new product liability regime https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/key-meps-propose-narrowing-down-eus-new-product-liability-regime/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ProductLiabilityDirective #software

Key MEPs propose narrowing down EU’s new product liability regime https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/news/key-meps-propose-narrowing-down-eus-new-product-liability-regime/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ProductLiabilityDirective #software

At #FOSDEM23, @maarten and @romdalf organised a session about how regulating software for the European market could impact #FOSS. A series of lightning talks is followed by a panel discussion covering the #CyberResilienceAct, the #ProductLiabilityDirective and the possible effects of them. You can now watch the recording of this session. #OpenSource #FOSDEM
https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/cyber_resilience/

I randomly asked #FOSDEM people about the #ProductLiabilityDirective revision.* You'll be surprised to learn that nobody knows about it. (I was around the embedded and IoT booths in AW.) #EU

(*) https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-a-europe-fit-for-the-digital-age/file-new-product-liability-directive

I randomly asked #FOSDEM people about the #ProductLiabilityDirective revision.* You'll be surprised to learn that nobody knows about it. (I was around the embedded and IoT booths in AW.) #EU

(*) https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-a-europe-fit-for-the-digital-age/file-new-product-liability-directive

#EU

Weithin unbeachtet hält der Entwurf zur Reform der #EU-Richtlinie für Produkthaftung „#ProductLiabilityDirective“ (#PLD) möglicherweise üble Überraschungen für #OpenSource-Entwickler.innen bereit. Dort sind keinerlei Haftungsausnahmen für Open Source Software vorgesehen. Die entsprechenden Paragraphen in der #GPL (und so ziemlich jeder anderen Open Source-Lizenz) wären in Europa nichtig, Entwickler.innen haftbar für Schäden, auch ohne kommerziellen Background.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/legislative-train/theme-a-europe-fit-for-the-digital-age/file-new-product-liability-directive

I was also involved in bringing the #CyberResilienceAct to #FOSDEM this year:

https://fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/cyber_resilience/

First, introductory lightning talks by the @EU_Commission introducing the audience to the proposals for a CRA and new #ProductLiabilityDirective. I'll share a @nlnetlabs perspective on the CRA.

This introduction is then followed by a panel led by Red Hat's https://github.com/romdalf (w/ @gijs and other great panelists) to hear different perspectives on the proposals.

Looking forward to it!