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It's also possible such a law (in the US) would violate the first amendment (being "compelled speech").



Do food nutrition labels violate the first amendment, being compelled speech?


Laws are just made up by people, we can make up new ones if we want.


But nobody is compelling anyone to write and release software. It's no different to requiring food to include a list of ingredients or products to include safety standards references etc.


I mean, there's a reasonable argument that large swathes of current copyright law in the US also violate the First Amendment. I haven't read it yet, but the book No Law from Stanford University Press[1] makes that argument and has been on my to-read list for a while.

[1]: https://www.sup.org/books/law/no-law




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