Re: What will NetBSD do about the age verification law?

["Julian H. Stacey" <jhs%berklix.com@localhost>]

If NetBSD does anything for [EU?] age verification law, hopefully
*BSD could co-operate for compatability & to share effort.

One contact for you might be (cc'd):
> From: Alice Sowerby <alice%freebsdfoundation.org@localhost>
> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:27:18 +0000 (12:27 CET)
> Subject: New Open Consultation - EU Cyber Resilience Act
> To: freebsd-security%freebsd.org@localhost

If anyone wants to spend time developing age encumbrances to *BSD, maybe
lessons can be learnt from pan-IX table based systems for
eg timezones, wpa_supplicant & national character sets etc.

Probably Linux, Android, Google & Samsung will be first, forced to
pay developers so vendors can sell mobiles with apps to kids. Later
maybe tabular formatted data can be imported, & may guide design
of mechanisms to use it on BSD.

Politicians in ~170 countries around the globe, have for decades
have passed clueless incompatible stupid laws
  (inc. examples: Encryption (USA crypt.c munitions; France & others
  etc), age verification [EU?], IP net security scanning (Germany,
  [self test]) etc.)
Changes/additions will be an ever moving target, wasting time if unpaid.

Rather than encumber *BSD, perhaps add or amend BSD licences, approx.:
 "Use of the software is only permitted after user accepts sole liability"
which could also address other periodic legal annoyances.

Cheers,
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