• makeasnek@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      If you are making a crane, I find it hard to believe you would give the crane itself away for free, since you have to recoup your costs. So that point you are selling cranes and engaging in commerce, so they have jurisdiction to regulate you.

      If you make and publish designs for a crane, or you speculate on how cranes ought to be built, it’s your right to free speech. Think about it, even an engineering textbook must describe how to design an unsafe bridge to teach you how to build a safe one. It will show you examples of famous collapsed bridges, perhaps with full blueprints and design instructions.

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          11 months ago

          EU don’t, but you need to make sure about the country in which you operated the crane as each EU country has its own laws and EU directives are not laws.

          I doubt you can be held responsible in such a case unless you are a civil engineer enabled to publish such designs and you did so by stating that those designs are in fact good to go.

          If I build my own crane and die or, worse, kill somebody operating it I am the only one responsible even if my uncle told me how to do so.