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Re: Linux to be illegal in California?

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On 2026-05-13 19:15, John McCue wrote:
> I guess you can say that, but it is not an outright ban of
> the kernel.
> If the distro add Age Verification then that distro is not
> illegal.  I heard systemd added an optional age field a
> specific distro can force upon its use on their users.

For the moment, it is only about having the field in a database, but 
there is nothing yet that uses that field. I mean, nothing that 
populates that field.

And the distro has to use the home implementation of systemd. I don't 
know how many distros use it: openSUSE doesn't.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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