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

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

I've drafted some personal notes in a pad 
https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/osgeo_cra-a2r1 if that may help for 
further action. Feel free to drop yours into it (anyone with the link 
should have edit rights).

I most certainly have mis-understood some things, and the formulation is 
too naive to be reused directly

The more I read the actual text of the act, the more it scares me. There 
is no way unpaid volunteers can comply with that (just look at the 
"CONTENTS OF THE TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION" in Annex V, and consider such 
documentation may potentially have to be written in an official language 
of each member state). Even with funding, this would require specific 
expertise, and a serious revamp of our processes, which might end up 
being just incompatible with how OSS works.

Even

Le 18/08/2023 à 12:39, Angelos Tzotsos via Discuss a écrit :
> 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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