I keep seeing this claim that open source maintainers shouldn't be upset about a 3rd party mandating we increase our maintenance burden to follow their new rules, because it's all about responsibility.

But I also see people claiming that it's not OK for the UK to require an increased maintenance burden for the same reason: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32055756

I think we need to accept that it's not a simple matter of responsibility. It's a question of how much maintenance burden is OK to mandate. The claim that open source maintainers should be fine with this increased burden because "responsibility" is not logically sound.

Also, the idea that there's no problem, because OS maintainers can just remove their package from pypi, totally ignores the point that that would be a really bad outcome for everyone that uses that package. I this that's actually a pretty big problem.