Re:EU’s proposed CE mark for software could have dire impact...
by arp242 on Friday January 27, 2023 @10:35AM
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> In the context of software, a commercial activity might be characterized be characterized not only by …
"Might" and "not only" are key here. Commercial and non-commercial are not easily separable in neat little boxes, and there's quite a lot of grey area. There's some amount of money involved in a lot of Open Source software, even when it's not really a "business" like, say a bakery or Twitter is. Is accepting money in GitHub sponsors to work on $project_x "commercial activity"? It's not clear to me from that description it's not.
As it stands, it's quite vague, partly because it's just so hard to nail down.
"Might" and "not only" are key here. Commercial and non-commercial are not easily separable in neat little boxes, and there's quite a lot of grey area. There's some amount of money involved in a lot of Open Source software, even when it's not really a "business" like, say a bakery or Twitter is. Is accepting money in GitHub sponsors to work on $project_x "commercial activity"? It's not clear to me from that description it's not.
As it stands, it's quite vague, partly because it's just so hard to nail down.