Post #781765

2026-03-19 17:41 UTC

That’s system76, not systemd. System76 is atleast trying to see what they can do (or rather can not do) and are in talks with legislators to see what this actually means for them (if it ends up meaning anything at all, apparently open sourse systems could be exempt from it). I’ve also seen discussions on nixos discourse to see what the best course of action is, and they are also not planning on just folding, but instead looking to bypass the issue. Meanwhile systemd already has the commits ready it seems, no questions asked.

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@FauxLiving@lemmy.world 2026-03-19 17:48

That’s system76, not systemd. Yeah oops, I’m just dumb. Meanwhile systemd already has the commits ready it seems, no questions asked. Because it’s a trivial addition that was requested by a large user of systemd. I don’t like these laws either, but they do exist. Go after the politicians who’re making them. Don’t go after the, volunteer, developers for not making a political stand on your behalf. It’s an optional field, unverified, unenforced and in the worst case, this is open source software so you can simply revert that PR and build it yourself without the extra field or if you feel super strongly about it you can fork the project. Heaping ire on the development team is the part that I’m taking issue with.

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