If you can feel a very small tinge of existential horror when you read the words “try to”, congratulations, you’re a true *nix devotee.
If legislators get grumpy about this, just gently thwap them with your handy copy of The Unix Haters Handbook and tell them you’re working as hard as you can under the circumstances.
Why? As long as they release the source, it should still be good. Californians will just have to build everything themselves and risk breaking the law
I don’t think you can restrict the usage geographically under LGPL. Oh course it’s unlikely to be enforced, but it’s license violation nonetheless.
They will make it so that “allowing users from California to download the OS (or code) from you is already a crime”. So for example canoical will have to geoblock californians from downloading ubuntu and any peer-to-peer downloads will be illegal anyway because fuck you.
Right. That’s the idea. Since Cali has a dumb law, it would be illegal to download Ubuntu in California. Californians follow their law, Ubuntu has to change nothing.
But how is that a license violation on Canonical’s part?
License? I never mentioned licenses.
Selling drugs is illegal because drugs are illegal. If a OS without age verification is illegal, then (depending on how stupid the laws are) having a site where you can download such a OS could also be declared illegal.
Basically force all providers of OSs to include verification or block downloads to those states, or face fines for “distributing illegal software”.
I am saying, if they are stupid enough to do X they might be stupid enough to try the even more stupid thing to achieve X.