Kinsey Moore commented on a discussion: https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems/-/issues/5502#note_143578 Yes, I, of course, am not a lawyer and have not read the law in question, so I have no idea what might be required or what loopholes exist for this type of software. Reading through the bill: "(c) “Application” means a software application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application." While it does run on things that could be considered general purpose computers, RTEMS is not a general purpose computing platform and there is no app store. There aren't even applications that can be loaded unless you contrive loadable modules to be equivalent to that. "(e) (1) “Covered application store” means a publicly available internet website, software application, online service, or platform that distributes and facilitates the download of applications from third-party developers to users of a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing that can access a covered application store or can download an application. (2) “Covered application store” does not mean an online service or platform that distributes extensions, plug-ins, add-ons, or other software applications that run exclusively within a separate host application." RTEMS definitely does not fit this and exempts loadable modules as far as I can tell. "(g) “Operating system provider” means a person or entity that develops, licenses, or controls the operating system software on a computer, mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device." This could be construed to mean any entity/org that submits code to RTEMS, but a lawyer would likely be able to argue that RTEMS does not have a controlling entity (at least at the moment). I think the biggest issue in the wording of this law is the conflation of a "general purpose computing device" (GCPD) and a "general purpose computing platform" as GPCDs can be configured with non-general purpose computing software/OS which should render them exempt from this new law. -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.rtems.org/rtems/rtos/rtems/-/issues/5502#note_143578 You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.rtems.org.
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