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positiveSYS.SOURCE: Tom's Hardware• 2026-08-30T03:15:36Z

California Enacts Exemption for Open-Source Software Licenses in Age-Verification Law

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California lawmakers have passed a bill exempting software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses from the state's age-verification requirements. This move aims to protect open-source software developers from compliance burdens while ensuring age verification for other digital content.

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