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by trumpdong 6 days ago
The EU CRA handles this by putting liability on someone who integrates FOSS into a product instead of someone who wrote it. Because it doesn't make sense to put liability for unforeseen downstream uses on someone who gave away something they made in their spare time. Now, if it was a virus, you're still liable for distributing a virus.
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Yes, when you're selling a product you can price the risk of lawsuits into whatever you're charging customers. You can't do that with free software without making it no longer free.

"No problem: just don't get sued" only works if legal battles are free and/or the law makes it so blatently obvious that you're not liable that nobody would bother to try.