Who is going to arrest/fine FOSS developers for not doing anything about that? Would Brazil and US states go after uuuh, the systemd developers? What about distros not using systemd, like Slackware. Who is ultimately responsible for a collaborative project? Are they gonna send the police after Torvalds?

Plus, other countries don't have this obligation.

All that dev had to do is nothing. Instead he chose to comply with something that was never asked.

There's no need to follow an unjust law, nor a law that makes you an unethical person.

"Software not for distribution or use in California" (aka: "offer void in Nebraska") is a perfectly valid compliance, btw.

And how exactly would that be breaking the law?

Systemd isn't an operating system provider and has no legal obligation to make any change.

lol, what? You mean the law in a handful of states and Brazil? Why should the entire world be affected by this?

I want him to do nothing.

He doesn't work for a distribution or a system integrator. He isn't the maintainer for systemd either. He's a random contributor, and he works for a cloud company that doesn't make or sell the sort of devices these laws apply to.

These age verification laws did not require Dylan Taylor to take any actions. He did that all on his own.

The beauty of FOSS is that if people want, they can just fork it and keep what they don't like out

Some laws need to be broken.

Have you learned nothing from history?