Briar is hard to regulate because of it having no server, hence I was wondering: are they an alternative to whatever the EU is doing with general messaging apps?
Briar is hard to regulate because of it having no server, hence I was wondering: are they an alternative to whatever the EU is doing with general messaging apps?
It isn’t, the license you publish your code under has no relation to whether or not the regulation applies.
For example I develop a small opensource (GPL) application, for which I do paid support. Because of the paid support, it’s interpreted as a commercial activity. Without the paid support, I can’t spend time on the project. I used to see it as a way to have the large users subsidise the project for all. Turns out it’s a huge liability instead.
So I’ll have to abandon the project when the law comes into effect. It’ll be easier to rewrite it closed source as an employee for those companies, for they do have a legal department.