California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

cm0002@lemy.lol · 18 hours ago

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt

Danitos@reddthat.com · edit-2 12 hours ago

Worth mentioning that California’s and Brazil’s age verification laws were cited as a motivating factor in the pull request, the pull request author works for Microsoft and he also did similar pull requests in other open source projects.

mabeledo@lemmy.world · 2 hours ago

The author does not work for Microsoft, nor he did add this field to “other open source projects”: https://dylanmtaylor.com/posts/2026-03-25-my-first-contribution-to-systemd

People just love to hate anything systemd related.

Skullgrid@lemmy.world · 12 hours ago

the pull request author works for Microsoft and he also did similar pull requests in a other open source projects.

So he made several mistakes as part of a co-ordinated jumping the gun on boot throating, AND he’s getting paid to make open source software worse?