California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
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AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

Let’s hope other states follow suit…

  • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 days ago

    AB 1856 doesn’t explicitly say that repos aren’t app stores, but a store’s main obligation under the law is to request an age signal from the user’s OS provider and pass it to developers; an exempt open-source OS produces no signal.

    So what’s the outcome of that? Are covered applications and application store to treat users as children when they don’t get a signal from the OS?