Changes in the legislation of the Russian Federation on licensing in the annex to the developers
Not long ago, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the third reading amendments to the federal law “On licensing certain types of activities” . In this connection, there are questions: will the activities of direct developers of software and databases be licensed and how to deal with open source software? The answer to the first question, it seems, is obvious: from reading the comment in brackets "except for the cases if the said activity is carried out by persons owning the rights to use the specified objects of copyright and related rights by virtue of federal law or contract", the right holder (and the developer is one) can freely develop and distribute copies of his developments without licensing. But at the same time, the issue of free distribution of software running under free licenses remains open, if only because of the fact that the original license is provided in English, and due to changes in copyright law, the question of the legitimacy of free licenses remained hanging in the air . I would like to know the opinion of the public about this.