Comment on Colorado Age Attestation bill gets amendments to have open source excluded
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Certainly an improvement.
Courts should still find it unconstitutional because software is free speech. I am all for advancing open source and giving people good reasons to switch to it, but not by setting precedents that governments have any business deciding what features software is allowed or required to have.
FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Software is free speech?
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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)