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Re:Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws by zelphirkalt on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @09:21PM (#45988100)
Maybe you could still program a website. But you might not be able to do it professionally.

But yes, more people should tell other people that they won't do that.

Re:Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws by TylerE on Thursday November 20, 2025 @12:57AM (#45989417)
Should contributing code to open source software require professional licensure?
Re:Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws by zelphirkalt on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:16AM (#45994261)
As far as I know most (all?) open source and free software licenses include terms, that explicitly states, that there is no warranty. So I think maybe a license there wouldn't be required. It is an interesting question though.
Re:Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws by TylerE on Thursday November 20, 2025 @11:35AM (#45994511)
But many people are paid by their companies to work on OSS.

Most commercial software doesn’t have a warranty either.

Re:Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws by zelphirkalt on Thursday November 20, 2025 @05:53PM (#45998990)
In that case I would say, since they are getting paid for their work by the company, they are in a different position than someone developing FOSS on their own private time.

I think a lot of commercial software that is not open source or free software, doesn't have licenses in the same sense. They are proprietary and they might have an EULA, that prohibits you from reverse engineering or something like that, or that declares the no warranty. But not licenses like for example GPL or MIT license. Such a license would be useless for proprietary software projects, because the user isn't supposed to ever get the code.