one of the first voices talking about this was Uncle Bob, and he posts from time to time here on nostr, i unfollowed him because he posted pro israel propaganda

it is not possible to legitimately put liability on a party who did not gain consideration from a contract, which is precisely why one of the main thing that open source licenses have written on them is "No Warranty, Expressed or Implied"

this is just the beginning of the inevitable descent into hell for computer software development that is inevitable under authoritarian systems like the EU and US federal government

they will make it so it's illegal to write software without a licence and the cost of compliance will be so high that these regions allowing such nonsense will have a very poor tech industry

look at the history of the soviet union - the only part of the bloc that had some tech industry was Bulgaria, and practically half of the computers used in the block came from bulgarian engineers (as do also a great deal of the weapons and many other technologies).

the reason why bulgaria, in particular, had this is because bulgarians got really smart at hiding their ways of avoiding the turkish thieving of their wealth via so many mechanisms i could write a book on how bulgarian culture is based on evading violence