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California Bill AB-1856 passes - exempting open source from age verification

California Bill AB-1856 passes - exempting open source from age verification

2026-08-31  Per Henrikson

The amendment removes open-source software from the law’s definition of an “operating system provider” when it is distributed under licences that allow recipients to copy, redistribute and modify it. Software released under the GPL, MIT, BSD and Apache licences therefore qualifies, putting Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch and BSD variants outside the law’s scope.


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