The second most restrictive of the Creative Commons licenses (only behind the BY-NC-ND one). CC BY-NC-SA is not considered an open source license.
It gives the most control to the original owners of the Copyright, since only they can produce commercial and proprietary versions of the product. Free as in free beer, but not as in freedom.
It’s baffling to me from the German side in particular, after they decommissioned all their nuclear plants… they reject a zero-carbon energy source under the pretense that wind and solar would be enough to go green (while, to this day, they keep pumping fuel), and now they are gonna argue that they need to pump more?
At least for the German one, it’s essentially a rebranding of existing open source products packaged/adapted to work as a suite.
For example, for editing documents they are using Collabora online (Libreoffice-based), for chat it’s Matrix, for storage Nextcloud, email & calendar from Ox Cloud, etc.
This just applies to the French government, unless you land a public job it’s likely you’d still have to deal with that shit.
Still, it’s good news and lets hope it sets a trend.
The thing is that age verification in a digital world is not easy… what exactly does the government mandate as a valid verification method?
Like… would asking the user their age be valid enough? … because it’s not like a reliable method exist (not even credit card verification prevents a minor from taking their parents card and go through it). IMHO, until the government doesn’t actually set a standard, I don’t see why websites should actually give anything else than the most minimal effort possible when it comes to this.