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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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[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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~~ merger works for Microsoft and the author also did similar pull requests in other open source projects.

Edit: it was the PR merger that works for Microsoft, not the PR author.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days 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?

[–] mabeledo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Danitos@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The author does not work for Microsoft

My bad, it was the PR merger that works for Microsoft, not the author.

nor he did add this field to “other open source projects”

Yes he did. He did several PRs using/collecting that field:

People just love to hate anything systemd related

Agree, and I actually like systemd, but I don't see the relantionship between that and my comment.