[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
Date:
Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:35:20 +0000
Description:
A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement on
operating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the Digital
Age Assurance Act does not restrict its requirements to proprietary or commercial
operating systems; projects like Debian, FreeBSD, Fedora, and others seem to be on
the hook just as much as Apple or Microsoft. There is some hope that the law will be
amended, but there is no guarantee that it will be. This means that the developer
communities behind Linux distributions are having to discuss whether and how to
comply with the law with little time and even less legal guidance.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1062112/
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