Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille says Debian has made no decision on age verification compliance and is still awaiting legal analysis.

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.

  • SenalEnglish
    4·
    14 hours ago

    Figurative, unless you’re actually proposing a real, measurable, testable large scale mental deficit.

    but yeah, death threat are stupid.

    • Stitch0815@feddit.org
      33·
      14 hours ago

      unless you’re actually proposing a real, measurable, testable large scale mental deficit.

      I do if you think death threats are appropriate

      • SenalEnglish
        41·
        13 hours ago

        That seems like a stretch…but you do you i suppose.

        • Stitch0815@feddit.org
          22·
          13 hours ago

          So you think there is a world where death threats are warranted for a… Pull request?

          That seems like a stretch… But you do you i suppose.

          • SenalEnglish
            41·
            12 hours ago

            I’ll assume you pulled that mental gymnastic routine out of the same place you store how you think the word literally is supposed to work.

            At no point was “pull requests deserve death threats” even hinted at.

            Semi-reasonable takes wrapped in logically dubious arguments is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

            Doubling down with a retort that only requires you to read 5 lines to see it isn’t true is wandering in the fields of free and easy victory and choosing to drown yourself in the 2 inch puddle of defeat.