Y’all are going after this guy rn but in a few months we should expect more and more distros to do changes like this. So lets think, what is the real issue going on here? The real issue is that these distros are hosted on GitHub, which is a Microsoft company, and they will comply in a heartbeat and take that shit down if the software is against the law. So the two options are to move off Github or wait until it gets taken down, and lawyer up and fight California and Colorado, which if so, we’d better start a fund as a community for some lawyers for these devs.

What fucking distro would make this change besides redhat?

Debian, Ubuntu, most of their derivatives except the niche ones, Arch, Endeavor, Manjaro, Fedora. Basically all major ones.
Mark my words.

Lol wit. No. Debian, arch, and Fedora are Foss projects. They have no reason to folloa the whims of these stupid laws.

They can just move the code to Iceland or whatever. It’s easy.

The donations for Debian, Arch and a dozen others are collected and distributed by a non-profit that sits in the US, which also represents them legally. If they’re sued into oblivion, the distros have no more money for hosting their repos.

Nope, just change fiscal hosts. It’s really easy.

Yeah, really easy, just all employees suddenly work for a foreign organisation which pays salary in foreign currency, while they’re still living and expected to pay income tax in the US. Transfers of money and tech are now cross-border and subject to Trump’s Truthed tariffs. All servers have to be transferred to different hosts, all SPF records need to be changed, all contact info updated.
Nothing difficult at all, it’s all really easy.

But hey, they avoided putting an empty data field in their OS, and with their 1% market share they sure sent a strong signal that’ll get lawmakers who have never even heard of Linux to reconsider.