Sidebar on the CRA, which was mentioned

Posted Oct 6, 2025 10:58 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Sidebar on the CRA, which was mentioned by Wol
Parent article: F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

Those are standard terms of art in EU law; they have a very clear meaning, and in the original drafts, where the exceptions to the CRA did not exist, would have resulted in liability for all software placed on the market in the EU.

This was not the intention of the Act's drafters, and they resolved this once it was brought to their attention - it would, however, have been a disaster for open source if the original wording had been intended, since it covered most software in the EU (MSDN samples would have been an exception, since they're not supplied as a product, but as documentation).