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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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[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right, it’s an exemption now.

But the age gate crowd will call it a loophole in the future.

[–] im_fine_sandy@nord.pub 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Moaners: this is terrible because there's no guarantee it will remain this way in perpituity

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

This isn’t a great thing happening, this is a slight dent being put in a terrible thing happening.

Do not confuse the two.