Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/929855/

This ten days old but hopefully better late than never: the Python Software
Foundation has put out an
article describing how the proposed European “cyber resilience act”
threatens the free-software community.

Under the current language, the PSF could potentially be
financially liable for any product that includes Python code, while
never having received any monetary gain from any of these
products. The risk of huge potential costs would make it impossible
in practice for us to continue to provide Python and PyPI to the
European public.

The Internet Systems Consortium has also recently put out
a statement on the proposal.