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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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[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Seeing this as a conspiracy against Linux users and not just patching badly written state level legislation is tin hat territory. If I’m not on the internet and using Linux in 2036 then I’m dead, and it’s not because I starved in the street after being unable to access my bank account on a Linux.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

state level

It's worth pointing out that the GDP of California makes it more like a country. It's not something that can just be ignored.

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