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CRA: Free Software stewards, maintainers and manufactures, share your input!

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To assess how the EU Cyber Resilience Act may impact the Free Software ecosystem, the “Dialogue on Cybersecurity” project, of which the FSFE is part, have developed a questionnaire. Its aim is to develop proposals for guidance.

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While the implementation of the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is currently underway, several questions remain open. Especially regarding its implications for the Free Software landscape. The relationship between Free Software projects, potential stewards and manufacturers, hangs only partially defined, and guidance will help.

To gain deeper insight into how the Free Software ecosystem will be affected, the "Dialog für Cybersicherheit" (Dialogue on Cybersecurity) project, of which the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) is part, is distributing a questionnaire to relevant stakeholders, including Free Software stewards, maintainers, and manufacturers. This questionnaire assumes you are familiar with the CRA and your feedback will be published anonymously.

The questionnaire is designed to collect crucial information that will help shape an informed response to the CRA's implementation and contribute in particular to guidance.

Contribute by answering our questionnaire:

The aim of this questionnaire is also to show ways in which the results can be incorporated into the implementation process of the CRA, helping to understand challenges, relationships between manufacturers and Free Software projects and will help to draft needed guidance. This will streamline our work with the Free Software ecosystem and the European Commission to make sure the CRA implementation does not harm our community.

Preliminary evaluation: presentation at FrOSCon 2025

The questionnaire will be open for anonymous responses until August 31 but all responses received by July 30 will be included in an initial evaluation. These preliminary results will be presented as part of a presentation at FrOSCon 2025, which will be on 16 and 17 August in Sankt Augustin (Germany). All feedback, including feedback after July 30 will be considered in the final analysis. We appreciate your participation and support – Thank you!