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Re: [open-regulatory-compliance] Open Source Software Stewards and CRA Whitepaper: review in progress until November 20th
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On 11/7/2025 1:44 PM, Elizabeth Mattijsen via open-regulatory-compliance
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Well, if something is not a legal organization, it's an individual or a group of individuals. And wasn't it the goal to never make an individual legally liable for the state of any Open Source project?
Yeah...because if you did it would effectively outlaw open source
projects (and community innovation, public good of transparency, etc.
etc). Not a good outcome.
So, for better or worse, I think some kind of legal body will *always* be needed in the new CRA world.
I agree that having a liability shield for open source projects is needed.
I just don't see the value of having a whole new legal
entity/org/steward in order to get a liability shield. Seems to me that
there are ways (contracts?) that could be created between manufacturers
and project teams directly...to establish a liability shield, yes, but
also to make closer the actual relationship between oss
consumers/manufacturers and the project teams/community. This would, I
suspect, also lead to more direct support/maintenance relationships
between open source project teams and manufacturers.
I understand that 'group of people/project' is much more difficult to
deal with definitionally than an org/legal entity. I just think adding
a new org third party will in many cases, actually harm the community
it's punitively a steward for.
