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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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[–] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Which means it is absolutely not about the children.

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    [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    How long before microslop tries to insist it's actually open source?

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    • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    They are simply splitting it into step 1 and step 2.

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    [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    So does this mean Android is exempt?

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    • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Well, at least they're not being entirely stupid, just mostly.

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    [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Yet another reason to not use windows.

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