alt Hacker NewsOnce you advertise and ask people use your software in production, you have an obligation to make sure it is somewhat safe.
If you actively advertise and give away free food, there is a baseline assumption that you are at least cooking the food in sanitary conditions.
If people get sick after eating the food you gave them, you can’t just shrug and say it was free.
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x0x0 • today at 4:19 PM
Sorry, but that's really absurd entitlement and also contravenes the license.
Open source is fundamentally a gift culture from the authors: here's a thing. You can use it for free; it may or may not meet your needs; but I do not owe you anything either way.
Your reasonable options are: 1. I stop sharing the software I write 2. You take responsibility for the software you use
Any software you use with this clause, "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."
Already attests that the authors do not offer guarantees that the software will have the features you need, supply chain security or otherwise.