Also affects application developers
Also affects application developers
Posted Mar 11, 2026 22:57 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Also affects application developers by fredrik
Parent article: California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux distributions
> [0] I interpret "own" in the copyright sense of the word. Again, I really have only read the above quote, nothing more. PS. This comment may well be as obviously stupid as the law. So let me conclude with an preemptive apology to all who are annoyed by it.
My reaction was that if you are not the sole maintainer AND copyright holder, then the end user is just as much the owner of a FLOSS program as the maintainers.
Cheers,
Wol