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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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[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago

It's not all good news, and unfortunately this bill expands the censorship regime to web browsers and websites too.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/one-step-forward-two-steps-back-cas-ab-1856-exempts-open-source-expands-age-gating