Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup

• yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How do you want to do this? Linux is a kernel the world relies on. It powers your car, your fridge, your satellite, your phone, the entire Internet, the army, etc. Nothing comes close to Linux in market share. The distros are built upon the kernel. System76 may have to comply, but the other maintainers don’t give a flying fuck. They could even write a small line somewhere on their repo that says “this distro is not allowed in California” and call it a day.

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  • Digit@lemmy.wtf ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder if that “this distro is not allowed in California” approach is even compatible with the various free software licenses.

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    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Terms of Use / Terms of Service are different from Licenses. That said, even if it was compatible that would be a good thing, as the impression I’ve got is that the “hard-liner” Free Software licenses are becoming a thing of the past now that what is needed is “Ethical Source” licenses, that eg.: restrict usage in AI.

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