[$] California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions

A recently enacted law in California imposes an age-verification requirement onoperating-system providers beginning next year. The language of the DigitalAge Assurance Act does not restrict its requirements to proprietary or commercialoperating systems; projects like Debian, FreeBSD, Fedora, and others seem to be onthe hook just as much as Apple or Microsoft. There is some hope that the law will beamended, but there is no guarantee that it will be. This means that the developercommunities behind Linux distributions are having to discuss whether and how tocomply with the law with little time and even less legal guidance.