First OS changes license to exclude use in California effective 01/01/2027 due to unanimous passage of California bill AB1043
Well, the fallout from Kalifornia's dumb-ass OS digital age verification law has begun.
An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification
It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.
Midnight BSD, an independent BSD distro, has changed their license agreement to exclude its use in the State of California effective 01/01/2027 when the new law goes into effect. Colorado will also apparently be added as an exclusion if their similar pending law is passed.
Ironically, since the law indicates that ANYTHING that runs an OS is subject to the law, the DB48X open source operating system attempting to clone the HP48x OS to run on SwissMicros DM32/DM42 calculators of all things has also come out with a similar change, amending their license to exclude use in California effective 01/01/27 and in Colorado as of 01/01/28 if their version of the law passed. A calculator OS. Go figure.
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