Hi, On Sun, Apr 7, 2019, 18:20 Florian Dold <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/7/19 6:46 PM, Schanzenbach, Martin wrote: > > The CAA does not help in any way. You are still liable as a platform. It > > has literally nothing to do with the copyright infringements if the > > contributor copied code from somewhere else. You cannot delegate this > > responsibility anymore to the user. That way the old way of doing it. > > I am not sure what requirements you are talking about. Do you have some > reference that explains this? Christian, do you have one? I would > guess we are probably not the only project affected by this.
I am assuming that the "EU regulation" here spoken of is the Copyright Reform, in particular Article 13. If that's the case, then “open source software development and sharing platforms” are explicitly excluded from it[1] (let's see how will that be transposed into national laws). It is arguable what defines something as being an "OSS dev & share platform", but I think it is fair to assume that a gitlab instance run and maintained by GNUnet e.V. and with the purpose of hosting only free software would qualify. > It sounds like you're suggesting that we should have a core team of > developers in official capacity for GNUnet e.V. to look at pull requests > and then say "we think that this doesn't infringe on copyright" and > merge them in. Is that what you're saying? If the OSS exemption didn't exist, this wouldn't be enough: those within the core team would need the tools to validate copyright infringement on each commit, instead of a simple "I looked at it and, after a cursory glance, I don't think it infringes any copyright". [1] http://www.openforumeurope.org/copyright-directive-approved-with-art-11-13/ Best regards, -- Marcos Marado _______________________________________________ GNUnet-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnunet-developers
