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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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[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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?

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Corporate stuff and things like IoT devices were already exempt from the law, they didn't need any changes.

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