Those kind of laws (the proposal) are destructive to the open source
innovation.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of Videolan
Nowadays almost all companies and individuals in Free and Open
Source Software are using version control systems to develop, plan,
coordinate, and document their work. The information in those version control systems embodies
precious technical and scientific
knowledge and humanity cannot afford the risk of losing it.
Roberto Di Cosmo, Founder/CEO of Software Heritage
Almost all of our development is based on a web-based version
control repository, and such tools play a key role in the processes of
open source development and collaboration.
Richard Brown, Chairman of openSUSE
If the new copyright directive in any way hinders innovation for the
modernization of the (...) public sector then the directive is defective
and harmful.
Daniel Melin, Senior Procurement Officer at Swedish National Procurement
Services
Many code hosting sites, some run by volunteers, participate in
and enrich this ecosystem. Requiring them all to create
expensive scanning mechanisms and intrusive user monitoring, and
deal with the resulting false positives, would establish a prohibitive
environment for the development of open source software.
Raegan MacDonald, Head of EU Public Policy at Mozilla
[If] the above setup would make us "information society service providers storing and giving
access to large
amounts of works and other subject-matter uploaded by their users".
If yes, then we would probably need to move most of our infrastructure and organization outside
of the EU.
Thomas Pfeiffer, Board Member of KDE
These types of software development service or ‘platform’
do not belong in the proposed Copyright Directive. However, as a
precautionary necessity, it is important for the European Parliament
and Commission to provide legal clarity and reassurance early on in
the first stage of the co-regulation procedure.
James Lovegrove, EMEA Public Affairs Director at Red Hat
Article 13 creates a high level of uncertainty for the software industry
and the free and open source software community, which are drivers
of economic growth, jobs, education, innovation, and the democratization of technology. The
article should be struck entirely, or at least
tailored to exclude software development.
Tal Niv, VP Law and Policy at GitHub
