Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded

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GamingBot@lemmy.zip · 6 days ago

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 days ago

Free speech is the right to distribute any kind of information, including software code in either source or compiled form.

That’s what the legal analysis should be anyway. Whether it will be…

FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 6 days ago

Fair fair, but that would apply only tp the source code, not the compiled binary/iso, not?

If so, I think I would agree woth that take.

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 days ago

No, why would that be different? (…is what I in any case would argue if I were the lawyer for a distributor of operating systems, which I am not)