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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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[–] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month 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?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

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