cm0002An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification
Luminous5481 "Lawless Heathen" [they/them]Apparently this will include Linux…
lol no it won’t. what are they gonna do, go around the world knocking on doors asking open source devs to include age verification in their Linux distros? the law is completely unenforceable.
It isn’t enforceable on the personal level, but every commercial distro will need an implementation (and let’s be honest, they will each create their own) to sell pre-installed or to offer service for public and private device fleets.
Meh, adding an age question to adduser wouldn’t be that bad, we could even replace the current room number question
Can’t wait to create all my accounts using the Unix epoch.
And non-commercial distros?
Depends if their non-profit is Californian or how deeply the mechanism is embedded into their base distro (if applicable).
If [email protected] is right and it’s done through a simple addition to adduser (and the GUIs) every distro that doesn’t actively patch against it, would get it upstream.
If [email protected] is right and it’s done through a simple addition to adduser (and the GUIs) every distro that doesn’t actively patch against it, would get it upstream.