Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille has addressed the ongoing debate over age-verification laws and their potential impact on free software operating systems. Long story short: he clarified that Debian has not adopted a position and is awaiting legal analysis.
In his latest “Bits from the DPL” message, Tille stated that the main question is whether operating systems and package distribution mechanisms might be required to provide age-related information to applications.
He noted that Debian and other projects are discussing the issue, and that Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit corporation founded to act as a fiscal sponsor for organizations that develop open-source software and hardware, has begun seeking legal guidance.
if my edgerouter 4 adds age verification i’m going to burn everything to the ground
A solution?
This reminds me, I actually installed OpenWRT on an ER-X. I need to go poke around on it and see how it works.
I have openwrt on my ER-X too, poor thing is relegated to glorified managed switch duties nowadays though
I think I tried it out once, but I wasn’t able to figure out how to to make this cake-autorotate thing work, was gonna use it on my starlink connection. Didn’t really get past that lol. I’m getting fiber on wednesday so it’s not really a concern anymore.
No that’s total garbage.
The law doesn’t mention commerciality or vendors, only operating systems.
EdgeOS is a fork of Vyatta, which is itself based on Debian.