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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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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year 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.

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