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The EU’s Product Liability Directive could kill open source

by dlor on 7/10/23, 4:19 PM with 1 comments

• by sylware on 7/10/23, 4:49 PM

  On complex systems, it is very hard to draw the line between willingly missing out critial issues and sincerely doing so.

  Basically, it will end up that any non-permanently audited assembly written software by possibly anybody (that would make open source mandatory by law), and non-permanently audited hardware (that would make VHDL/Verilog open source mandatory by law) would become illegal.