Especially since the EU just made open source contributors liable for cybersecurity (Cyber Resilience Act). Just let AI contribute and ur good
Didn’t they make an exception for open-source projects? https://opensource.org/blog/the-european-regulators-listened...
Yeah, just the usual hn FUD about the EU.
Re:Claude 4
by throwaway894345 on Friday May 23, 2025 @12:22PM
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Can you reconcile that with this sibling comment?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074070
I don’t have an opinion, just trying to make sense of contradictory claims.
“Anyone opensourcing anything while in the course of ‘commercial activity’ will be fully liable. Effectively they rugpulled the Apache2 / MIT licenses... all opensource released by small businesses is fucked. where the was no red tape now there is infinite liability”
This is my current understanding, from a friend not a lawyer. Would appreciate any insight from folks here.
Re:Claude 4
by spiderfarmer on Friday May 23, 2025 @05:53PM
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So you’re willfully spreading FUD in hopes someone will enlighten you?
The law is real. What emotions would you suggest are appropriate?
Re:Claude 4
by spiderfarmer on Saturday May 24, 2025 @12:41AM
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Open Source is exempt, provided you don’t make a profit:
https://kevinboone.me/open_source_liability.html
So it applies to anyone who figures out how to monetize open-source contributions. Seems like a major issue to me. Not exactly something that makes Europe a good place for tech.
Re:Claude 4
by spiderfarmer on Monday May 26, 2025 @01:07AM
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The US has the reputation that rich competitors will abuse the judicial system to sue you into bankruptcy. Still, a lot of people want to start their tech startup there.
> I am incredibly eager to see what affordable coding agents can do for open source :)
Oh, we know exactly what they will do: they will drive devs insane: https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1krttqo/my...
I dunno, looking through those issues I'd be more annoyed by all the randos grandstanding in my PRs.
[0] My headless coding agents product, similar to “assign to copilot” but works from your task board (Linear, Jira, etc) on multiple tasks in parallel. So far simple/routine features are already quite successful. In general the better the tests, the better the resulting code (and yes, it can and does write its own tests).