California's Digital Age Assurance Act is due to take effect at the very start of 2027, bringing in sweeping age-verification checks by system providers. As part of it, operating systems will have to do age checks on users to lock down certain functions, which had led some Linux developers to go full crisis mode in response. Well, good news, the Assembly Bill 1856 amendment has just passed and it exempts open-source operating systems from compliance.
As reported by Tom's Hardware, the amendment passed with a 39-0 vote. The wording on the Linux passage is curious. It specifically precludes a "person or entity that distributes an operating system or application under license terms that perm...
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