A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.
This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.
@artemis @wwahammy this isn't complying in advance, it's complying with the law. Which passed unanimously through the California assembly and senate and was signed into law by Gavin Newsom in 2025. It's not going to be repealed.
Open source projects do not have the type of budget that allows them to merely ignore the law and shrug off fines and legal fees.
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If that person would be a maintainer of a “popular” OSS¹ project then the AG could choose to make them an example.
So I could see from their viewpoint not wanting to get in trouble.
…because they don't want to leave the CA jurisdiction so they choose to comply.
1. “F” omitted, as systemd being enforced and feeling pompous enough to consider itself the operating system is definetly not “Freedom”.
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