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I would also interpret it this way, though California’s government is profoundly technologically incompetent, despite being the home of “Silicon Valley.”
Knowing California, they would try to twist the word “vendor” to cover any entity that does any kind of business, similar to how they dismantled interstate commerce protections for the entire country. If that didn’t work, they would argue that donations make something a vendor.
The situation is stupid and I am long past tired of idiots pushing idiocy on others en masse.