There's not much detail on how this could affect Open Source development, except that GitHub and the like might be forced to implement "flawed filters".
But how could this be implemented by GitHub? What are they going to check projects against? The source code of all the closed source products on the planet? I think not. They are going to be checking for pirated works that have been published publicly, e.g. movies, books, etc. If these are on GitHub, they shouldn't be. I'd like to see a little more explanation of what exactly is wrong with the proposed law. Otherwise it sounds like FUD to me. On Monday, 2 October 2017 10:38:15 UTC+2, Nicolas M. Thiéry wrote: > > Dear Sage developers, > > Summary: the EU is looking to pass a new copyright act that would > require sharing platforms to filter for copyright infringements. For > software sharing platforms like GitHub, GitLab, ... this is very > problematic and might endanger open source development as we know it. > > You may want to read https://savecodeshare.eu/ and sign the open letter > by the Free Software Foundation Europe to the EU there. > > The letter can be signed as an individual or as an organization. > OpenDreamKit is planning to sign as an organization. Maybe the > SageMath fundation could sign as an organization as well on behalf of > the community? (unless of course some SageMath dev would object now). > > Cheers, > Nicolas > -- > Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/ > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
