[OpenIndiana-discuss] European Disability Directives 2025

Tue May 27 08:55:27 UTC 2025

The wider implications are indirect of changes in industry standards and
ends users regards robert

On Tue, 27 May 2025, 09:34 Till Wegmüller, <toasterson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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