by Florian Idelberger
 
Cyber Resilience Act finalized
 
On 1st of December the negotiators between the Commission, Council and the parliament reached an agreement in the trilogues on the final text (not currently publicly available) of the Cyber Resilience Act that was originally proposed by the EU commission on 15th September 2022 and which we reported on previously here.
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by Florian Idelberger

The Fedora Project announced that it changed its classification of CC0 for use in program source code. Free- and Open-Source software developers are not always fond of software licenses but see them more as a necessary evil. When they want to grant almost all rights away, within the limits of the law, they might choose a license such as CC0.

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Florian Idelberger

Just this past Wednesday, the European Court of Justice handed down a judgement in the case C-13/20 Top System on the right to decompilation by a purchaser of software to fix errors, which was discussed here previously in the context of the right to repair. Read More...

Florian Idelberger
 
Time and time again, companies have struggled with their licensing. It has often been a challenge for companies to find a business model that enables them to make money, but still provide truly open-source software. That said, the precise economics are often not verifiable as it is also possible that at some point a pivot to a more closed license is simply an enabler to achieve higher market share, whereas in other cases it is about survival.
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