[OpenIndiana-discuss] European Disability Directives 2025

[Till Wegmüller]

Hello

A Quick search relvealed [0] And there seems to be a clause that 
excluded small companies

Quote:
 >The requirements and obligations of this Directive do not apply to 
microenterprises providing services within the scope of this Directive – 
whereby ‘microenterprise’ means an enterprise which employs fewer than 
10 persons and which has an annual turnover not exceeding €2 million or 
an annual balance sheet total not exceeding €2 million.[8]

Since we are below this line even with the Association goals in mind, 
this will not target us. What I am not clear about is where the line is 
drawn who makes a product in an open source setting. In the case of GIMP 
it would be the GIMP developers that make the GIMP "Product" and not us. 
Same for Thunderbird. Thunderbird being the currently best funded OSS 
project to my knowledge only scratches the 8.6 Million mark. So we will 
be ok for quite some time :) [1]

Hope this clarifies things
-Till

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Accessibility_Act
[1] 
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-annual-report-2023-2024/


On 27.05.25 10:00, Private Mail wrote:
> Dear Reginald,
> 
> The European Accessibility legislation is enacted from 28th June 2025...it
> cover a wide spread of digital access issues including development of
> software and operating systems.it will initially effect the EU.However it's
> effects will touch upon changes required in the USA and the UK in both
> government and private sector supply chain.This is a reference to awareness
> not any legal advice.A web search of European Accessibility Act 2025 should
> provide answers to initial questions. Regards Robert
> 
> On Mon, 26 May 2025, 22:36 Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss, <
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> 
>>   Robert,
>>
>> WTF?
>>
>> A bit of explanation would be useful. Link to the legislation perhaps?
>> Some explanation beside merely a change of subject line.
>>
>> There is nothing in your reply or subject line that has logical continuity
>> with the quoted posts about GIMP not working.
>>
>> I did not receive anything following Apostolos' post but yours. Nothing in
>> the SPAM bin. So there is absolutely no continuity of thought between his
>> and Marc's posts and yours.
>>
>> Has the EU decided that GIMP must be usable by the blind? It certainly
>> looks like the sort of thing
>> someone in Brussels would demand.
>>
>> Reg
>>
>>       On Monday, May 26, 2025 at 02:21:05 PM CDT, Private Mail <
>> bscuk2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>   Dear All,
>> This is new legislation which may effect users developers and companies
>> going forward.It is advisable to be aware how it will effect the whole
>> industry. Regards Robert
>>
>> On Mon, 26 May 2025, 20:07 Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss, <
>> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I am using GIMP version 2.10.38 and on illumos-12e5728106, April 2025,and
>>> there is no problem. However, previous versions of GIMP had thisproblem
>> and
>>> I had to use some online tools for even basic things.Have you tried to
>>> upgrade your system(s)?
>>> Regards,Apostolos
>>> ----------------------Apostolos Syropoulos
>>> Xanthi, Greece
>>>     On Monday, May 26, 2025 at 03:58:33 PM GMT, Marc Lobelle via
>>> openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>   Hello,
>>>
>>> For quite a long time, I cannot anymore use gimp on openindiana:
>>> apparently recent versions(2.1) on openindiana cannot load files in
>>> common image formats such as jpg or png
>>>
>>> When I try, I get a message window saying (sorry, in French):
>>>
>>> Le greffon s’est arrêté brutalement : « file-png »
>>> (/usr/lib/amd64/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-png/file-png)
>>>
>>> Le greffon a peut-être endommagé l’état interne de GIMP. Vous devriez
>>> enregistrer vos images et redémarrer GIMP pour être certain de sa
>>> stabilité.
>>>
>>> L’ouverture de « /home/ml/Desktop/CIML_r.png » a échoué : La procédure
>>> « file-png-load » n’a renvoyé aucune valeur.
>>>
>>> I hoped that it would be solved but apparently it did not.
>>>
>>> Did anybody else suffer of this problem ? Is there a workaround (other
>>> than starting a windows machine where gimp works)
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Marc
>>>
>>>
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