Today, I met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051.

Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility.

Amendments are expected for the CA age attestation bill. It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence excluding open source in the CA bill amendments.

No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.

@carlrichell Thank you and reshared with a reminder we must proactively call our representatives.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell/116201429639953387

Actually going to meet a co-author of that California bill is such a great move to make.

@carlrichell An additional reason to amend these age attestation bills is that Linux runs in products that people don't think are computers - like a sound system I have - it can play internet radio, etc., and has a processor inside running Linux, which saves the manufacturer whatever some other company would charge for an embedded OS.

@carlrichell Nice work! I've been bugging my own reps, but haven't even gotten a response from them so far.

@carlrichell great initiative from you! Thanks a lot!

(but such laws should really not get established in the first place)

@carlrichell #brazil Is facing a similar issue with our federal law. It goes into effect essentially this month, and we have no idea on how to even start to get to talk to someone at the federal level in order to make something like an exemption.

I'm honestly worried about the perspectives for our local #FOSS communities, currently still trying to get in touch with everyone to at least check on what are the practical implications over here, and what are the real risks

#Brasil