Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.tcpreset.net!newsgate.tebibyte.org!.POSTED.251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net!Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux to be illegal in California? Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 22:54:52 +0200 Organization: Tebibyte_Retro_Gaming Message-ID: References: <10u03i7$4nle$1@dont-email.me> <10u2bjn$7tk9$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mailgate.tebibyte.org; posting-host="251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net:79.150.114.251"; logging-data="27714"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@tebibyte.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10u2bjn$7tk9$1@dont-email.me> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86715 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🇪🇺;