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This exception only applies if you have clear intent to make no money on the software. As soon as you put "donate" button the site, you lose the protections.

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Donations are not a commercial activity if no good or service is exchanged (in which case they wouldn't be donations, just purchases).

This is correct, but EU's act we are discussing about says opposite, hence the discussion.

The "exception" doesn't go far enough. If code is open source then anyone can fork and fix it. Money doesn't change this.

It doesn’t matter in the face of how that directive is phrased today. No matter how much in denial one may be.

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