{"id":17001,"date":"2026-04-26T19:06:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=17001"},"modified":"2026-04-26T19:06:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:06:54","slug":"open-source-exemption-to-colorados-age-verification-law-would-not-include-gpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/open-source-exemption-to-colorados-age-verification-law-would-not-include-gpl\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Open Source Exemption&#8221; to Colorado&#8217;s Age Verification Law Would Not Include GPL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is interesting in light of the tech news source&#8217;s coverage.. I kind of take it as something done on purpose, as their marching orders are to get this done and opensource isn&#8217;t getting an exemption. Linux and BSD are targeted, as all operating systems need to be brought under control for the incoming digital ID. And even if Colorado did exclude it, this doesn&#8217;t help with California and Brazil with legislation already passed, and the states working on their own along with the federal government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Open Source Exemption&quot; to Colorado&#039;s Age Verification Law Would Not Include GPL\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o1iHwSClTCg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting in light of the tech news source&#8217;s coverage.. I kind of take it as something done on purpose, as their marching orders are to get this done and opensource isn&#8217;t getting an exemption. Linux and BSD are targeted, as all operating systems need to be brought under control for the incoming digital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17002,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001\/revisions\/17002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}