Speaking Up For FOSS Now Everyone Uses It
summary
Open source now underpins about 80% of software and drives 100 billion euros of EU GDP yet that economic weight depends on a fragile legal certainty called stochastic confidence: OSI-approved licenses plus public review make reuse safe. New EU rules (Cyber Resilience Act, Product Liability updates, SEPs, AI and data laws) risk adding compliance checkpoints — contribution agreements, provenance checks, DRM, export controls — that lower that confidence. Community coordination, monthly org calls, open letters and direct MEP contact are the practical defenses.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:51Brief history of free and open source software
- 5:13Open source success
- 13:48Permissive licenses
- 17:22Regulation threats
- 26:57Cyber Resilience Act
- 33:18Open source policy
- 40:24How to advocate for open source in legislation
- 44:18Q&A
- 46:24Proactive advocacy
- 50:16EU regulations balance
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