This is the opportunity to write a wish list

Posted Jan 9, 2026 14:26 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: This is the opportunity to write a wish list by Wol
Parent article: European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

> Of course you can! Everything is down to what the contract says! And if the contract says you work on an hourly R&D basis or whatever, and don't provide CRA guarantees, then the regulator will look at that and say to your customer

Ok, then if that's the case, and the CRA obligations can be kept devolved to your commercial customer by contractual agreement, then... that's a pretty simple option for a developer/maintainer who wants to provide a procurement-process-friendly "it's a purchase, not a donation, see" best-effort support option that doesn't entangle said dev in CRA obligations.

Perfect.

(Course, handling CRA obligations for customers may be a good way to get more customers).