[Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] EU Cyber Resilience Act - potential impacts on open geospatial software?

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi all,

We are planning to make a community meeting about the EU CRA, so we can 
discuss our action plan forward.

The meeting is planned for Tuesday 22 Aug 13:00 UTC in our Jitsi room:
https://meet.jit.si/OSGeo

Best,
Angelos

On 7/22/23 00:20, Adam Steer via Discuss wrote:
> Hi OSGeo
>
> The European Union's proposed Cyber Resilience Act has just come to the
> attention of many non-EU folks as a potential dampener on open source
> geospatial software development and usage. A summary from GitHub is here
> (thanks Marco Bernasocchi for pointing it out):
>
> https://github.blog/2023-07-12-no-cyber-resilience-without-open-source-sustainability/
>
>   It's being discussed in the OSGeo board, and some responses from other
> open source organisations have already been made, for example:
> https://newsroom.eclipse.org/news/announcements/open-letter-european-commission-cyber-resilience-act
>
> It would be great to hear your thoughts on the impact of the proposed
> legislation on open source geospatial software development across the
> globe  - so we can form an appropriate community response as soon as
> possible. What are your thoughts?
>
> Yes, we're late in gettung our attention on to this. Hopefully not too
> late.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adam
>
> --
> Dr. Adam Steer
> OSGeo director
>
>
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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