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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)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So now 3rd parties who would leverage said age exemption can simply block Linux entirely holding up a shield of "compliance"

[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Counter point - now open source stuff can advertise as not needing age verification, which would probably be a plus for people looking to buy say a smart bulb.

[–] bloviate@lemmus.org 1 points 5 days ago

My smart bulb has a foot fetish