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by pcdavid 269 days ago
Isn't this what the european Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is about? See https://orcwg.org/cra/ and the work of the Open Regulatory Compliance Working Group in general.
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More or less, though the CRA is pretty minimal: it has a few basic requirements and hobby/unpaid open source software is not covered. A company integrating open source software is essentially responsible for covering those requirements themselves.
The company being responsible for the open source components they integrate should solve the biggest dependency problems, though. From a security perspective, it doesn't really matter if a company fixes the bugs themselves or if they pay someone to fix it for them.