On 2026-03-07 19:31:37, Keon Cachia wrote:
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
On top of the bill sent by Keon, I've also stumbled across [0], which appears to be a similar bill for Colorado.
At the end of the day, isn't this down to the technical possibility of compliance with this law? The wording as described in the above link does clearly state that is is a blanket law that applies to all OS's, including Arch among every other Linux Distro we could name under the sun. I personally don't see how they can enforce such a law on community-led projects like this one, but a discussion on how we can comply is worth having.
Could the MidnightBSD route be followed? According to [1], they're outright banning the use of their OS effective the same day this law comes into effect.
In a similar vein, could the bills' reliance on self-reporting be used in some way to make things easier?
In the end, I probably know nothing at all, I'm just trying to give my perspective looking from Britain, especially after we've had the online safety act mess over on our side of the pond/
-Adam [0]: https://leg.colorado.gov/bill_files/110990/download [1]: https://github.com/MidnightBSD/src?tab=License-1-ov-file
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