The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren't necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days ("surge" because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):
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paramazo/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager without age verification"
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ganitam/systemd "Systemd fork just before the Age Verification addition. Hoping more capable developers and maintainers do same.."
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GSYT-Productions/systemd-fork "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the stupid Age Verification"
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speedythesnail/unret arded-systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager, without the ret arded age-verification commits"
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ta13579/systemd "The systemd System and Service Manager WITHOUT THE FUCKING AGE CHECKS"
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r4shsec/systemd-no-age-verification "This is systemd but without the age verification made via pull request https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40978"
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Pingasmaster/fightthesystemd "Systemd without the nonsense: no age verification, no lighthouse built-in."
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Jeffrey-Sardina/system "Liberated systemd -- no surveillance. Ever."
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HaplessIdiot/systemd-saneagecheck "The systemd System and Service Manager with age verification bypass and polling rate options for said feature"
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Queer-Coded-LGBTQ/systemd-fuck-california "The systemd System and Service Manager, but without age bs added in."
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Codiak540/unshitted-systemd "A fork of systemd aiming to strip the Age verification. Sue me california."
Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.
I didnt realize systemd was under the jurisdiction of California and Brazil.
Also, yes you can, and bring about a legal challenge against it for the plethora of reasons why its stupid, useless, creates new threat attack vectors, exposes PII unnecessarily, and so on, and so forth.
You want a California patch? Go for it.
It does not belong in the main branch.
where do the maitainers of the linux distro of your choice live? I mean every single person because if even one lives in CA (Brasil...) you have to either 'fire' that person or follow the law for their sake. I agree systemd shouldn't be the place for this, but systemd wants to take over everything and I'm sure some of their maintainers live in CA thus they feel they must.
All over the globe, much like systemd.
Also like systemd, their operation is not determined by Colorado, California, and Brazil.
And before anyone gives me the "hurt durr other states have it proposed" - other states have had all kinds of stupid laws that make it absolutely nowhere.
And no, they wouldn't have to "fire" anyone from CA, CO, or Brazil. Because it has fuck all to do with systemd in the first place.
systemd is not an operating system. The laws do not have any application to systemd. Including it in systemd as a field, as specifically stated for these three jurisdictions is idiotic in so many ways.
Edit: Also, just to be clear - this PR did not come from maintainers. It came from one person who submitted multiple PRs for age verification across multiple projects.
It was merged by a maintainer though, which is why they deserve criticism.
Age verification bills are being introduced in a lot of places
Not this kind that have passed, no.
Edit: whole couple words missing.
If we don't fight back they will become standard everywhere.
Instead of being mad at devs be made at those who passed and are considering passing age verification laws.
SO WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU DEFENDING IT.
I'm not?
I've been contacting my local reps like any citizen should do. Being mad at devs does nothing. Open source developers gets tons and tons of hate I don't need to contribute the shortage of FOSS maintainers.
Your shitty misinformation meme post would certainly disagree.