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 <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:27:18 +0000 (12:27 CET) > Subject: New Open Consultation - EU Cyber Resilience Act > To: [email protected] 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, -- Julian Stacey http://berklix.eu/jhs/mail/ Can't reply to Gmail & Yahoo. Arm Ukraine. Contraception & plain text email to reduce global warming.
