The US state of California passed a bill last year <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/california-introduces-age-verification-law>, due to take effect from next year, requiring all “operating system providers” to collect (self-reported) age information from users of their platforms, and pass that on to app developers. This caused consternation among developers of open-source operating systems, who (by design) do not have the degree of control over, and insight into, their user base that owners of proprietary platforms have available. Now, the California state legislators have agreed that this is an unreasonable burden on purveyors of software “under license terms that permit a recipient to copy, redistribute, and modify” (exactly what FLOSS licences allow), so they have passed an amendment excluding these from the requirement. There are a couple of other exclusions added in this amendment, one seemingly (we hope) drawing a distinction between Linux distro repos (exempt) and Apple/Google/Microsoft-style app stores (covered), and another to do with stores only offering addons to run within host apps. Both of these seem a little less clear to me. <https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt>