On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 06:46:06PM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2023 at 09:28, Bart Martens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2023 at 09:14:05AM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > > I feel like we're getting trapped by big corp and their lobbying > > > power, and we need to use stronger words. > > > > Probably in a different way. I'd rather prefer Debian to defend the DFSG, > > including DFSG 6. If the EU were to draw a line for compulsory liability, > > then > > it should not be between commercial and nonprofit, but rather between FOSS > > and > > non-FOSS. For example, in my opinion "awscli" is FOSS, and the usual > > liability > > disclaimer in FOSS licenses should also be valid for "awscli". This is, in > > my > > understanding, a different opinion than discussed so far, right? > > That would not be a good outcome. Just because a smartphone ships open > source software, it doesn't mean its vendor should get away with not > providing security updates after a few months, causing the phone > owners to lose their data or worse.
That is a different case. The user of a smartphone depends on the vendor for keeping the smarthpone safe for use during a reasonable time after purchase. I follow you on that.
