Hi, On 2026-03-09 10:14:23, Jelle van der Waa wrote:
All that is needed is a way for the operating system to provide an age (range) to an application / app store. Work for this is already underway in GNOME / systemd for parental controls. This is already wanted for parental control reasons unrelated to California law.
Do repos like the existing Core, Extra, and Multilib official ones count as an "app store" in their eyes? I'd "guess" that most of us are using Pacman in cli for all of our package management, and personlly I am not entirely sure that it would count, in my eyes.
On 2026-03-09 14:28:41, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
If it is aimed at tech companies, a referendum exempting FLOSS projects would be one approach.
On 2026-03-09 15:38:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
Therefore, submit a referendum to exempt FLOSS from the regulation. Californians need to take this into their own hands.
If such a referendum or petition was to happen, I hope it would garner the right kind/amount of support. It won't be for either of us two to decide, as we're well across the pond from where this is going down for the moment.
On 2026-03-09 15:35:33, Shaurya Anand wrote:
What if we change the definition of Arch, so it no longer falls under the category of an operating system? We can say that "Arch Linux is a collection of utilities and software to be used with the Linux kernel". This is a pretty bad idea according to me but could this work in theory? Like LFS is not an operating system or a Linux distro but a manual to set up one.
I've heard worse ideas for getting around it. It definitely sounds better than going nonfree.
On 2026-03-09 10:43:41, Óscar García Amor wrote:
As I said before, it's an interesting debate.
On 2026-03-09 11:05:52, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Mon, 2026-03-09 at 11:14 +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote:[1] https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922 [2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954[3] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-european-union-mini-id-walletThis reads like satire for anyone who works with children and guardians.
Interesting sounds about right. This whole situation feels like a The Onion article come to life, and I don't work with either.
On 2026-03-09 14:19:06, Robin Candau wrote:
Again, we understand the attention around this topic, but please arm yourself with patience. We will communicate as soon as we are able to.
As per this, this will be my last contribution to this thread until I (or we) know more. I'm going to be keeping an eye on how things turn out over here in Britain. With the way things have been with other laws over here (including the potential for requiring ID checks for all VPN users) I am not hopeful.
-Adam
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