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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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[–] Matty_r@programming.dev 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There were some people practically tripping over themselves to add all the prerequisites needed to support age verification. Instead of waiting to see how things played out, they just rushed through changes for things like systemd.

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Adding a nullable "date of birth" field on a json doesn't seem like "rushed". The whole thing was massively overblown, considering it already had a field for the user real name (also optional).

https://systemd.io/USER_RECORD