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California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This makes literally zero sense.

Why would the software license determine this? Just rollback the shit law.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Cause they don't want to have to force corpos to get age verification on the ludicrous number of IoT devices that run Linux, but cover their ass in making it not seem that way.

    Oh sorry. I mean... cause they're, like, open-source and how could you even enforce that?

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