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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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[–] 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

I haven't been following this particular law, but I've always wondered how it would have been implemented for servers.
Even windows has a server edition I believe, if a corporation is using a windows server, would one of their IT employees have to verify it themselves?
What about IOT operating systems, docker/podman containers, router firmware, and so on. Not sure if they address these things in the legal code or not.

This is good news for california, I believe atleast colorado has a similar law being proposed as well. Hope they take notes from cali.

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  • [–] [S] 19 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    Is it even technically possible to enforce it on open-source application, with code readily available for tweaks and modifications?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    It's fundamentally unenforceable, even if they tried to do what they've done to phones and not allow other OS's to be installed, you could still get development boxes, embedded boxes, etc that by nature of being what they are could not have locked boot loaders.

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