This is the opportunity to write a wish list

Posted Jan 9, 2026 16:17 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: This is the opportunity to write a wish list by raven667
Parent article: European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

To be honest, many (most?) Free Software projects would be at little risk from the CRA, even if they fell under its obligations. Given those obligations appear generally to be "Follow good development practices" which many Free Software projects do anyway. The most onerous obligations would be the requirements to provide security reports and updates for X years (is it 10?!!!).

There's been much discussion about the CRA here on LWN, but I'm still unclear as to exactly what the worst-case/hardest to meet obligations are, for any project that happened to be swept up in it somehow.