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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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 4 points 17 hours ago

Probably because you can just modify the OS to say you're old enough. With a closed source OS you can't.

In reality it just means you can't use the OS as age verification, and will have to use other means if you're into that. Personally I just slap on a VPN and go somewhere that hasn't succumbed to this idiocy...