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Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid (www.neowin.net)
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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

European devs: Our laws will protect us!

Meanwhile, our laws:

Article 30

Traceability of traders

  1. Providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with traders shall ensure that traders can only use those online platforms to promote messages on or to offer products or services to consumers located in the Union if, prior to the use of their services for those purposes, they have obtained the following information, where applicable to the trader:

(a) the name, address, telephone number and email address of the trader;

(b) a copy of the identification document of the trader or any other electronic identification as defined by Article 3 of Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council (40);

Article 30, DSA

[–] take6056@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

How is trader defined? Is it a developer that's selling apps or also one that's just providing it for free?

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Bear in mind that an open source license is a contract and it usually involves some form of reciprocity, like crediting the dev by name. That's in principle not different from a sponsorship deal, where some sports stadium gets the name of a corporation.

The actual definition is even wider, though. I don't see who you get out of that.

Trader defined in the DSA

‘trader’ means any natural person, or any legal person irrespective of whether it is privately or publicly owned, who is acting, including through any person acting in his or her name or on his or her behalf, for purposes relating to his or her trade, business, craft or profession;

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/En/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32022R2065#art_3

If F-droid ever has more than 50 employees, annual turnover over EUR 10 million, or over EUR 10 million on the balance sheet, then they will have to collect the same information.