--- title: There's Hope That At Least Colorado's Age Attestation... description: System76 CEO Carl Richell met with Colorado State Senator Matt Ball, co-author of the Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill (SB26-051), who suggested excluding... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/there-s-hope-that-at-least-colorado-s-age-attestation-bill-could-exclude-open-source-mjv0elqpv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: There's Hope That At Least Colorado's Age Attestation Bill Could Exclude Open-Source | daily.dev og:description: System76 CEO Carl Richell met with Colorado State Senator Matt Ball, co-author of the Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill (SB26-051), who suggested excluding... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/there-s-hope-that-at-least-colorado-s-age-attestation-bill-could-exclude-open-source-mjv0elqpv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MJv0elqpv.png og:image:alt: There's Hope That At Least Colorado's Age Attestation Bill Could Exclude Open-Source og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # There's Hope That At Least Colorado's Age Attestation Bill Could Exclude Open-Source **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary System76 CEO Carl Richell met with Colorado State Senator Matt Ball, co-author of the Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill (SB26-051), who suggested excluding open-source software from the bill. This follows System76's earlier statement about age verification laws in California and Colorado that could significantly impact Linux distributions and open-source software. While no guarantees exist, there is cautious optimism that open-source exclusions could be added via amendments in both Colorado and California bills. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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