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California law exempts open-source OS from age verification

August 29, 2026, 15:57 UTC · Sacramento, United States · Americas · no longer in the live window

California lawmakers passed a bill exempting GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licensed software from the state's age-verification law.

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