Post #2563787

2026-04-27 00:57 UTC

@kasdeya@cryptid.cafe i believe most permissive and copyleft open source licenses (including the most used ones, maybe except BSD-*) include an entire paragraph in allcaps saying no warranty (ill attach the excerpt from one of these). i know the licenses are taken for granted these days but i feel like that's the most important part of them, bluntly saying "i dont owe you anything" to the user or at least i think that's what you'd be referring to with disclosing user/project responsibility. that being said i do like when projects outline what parts can be contributed to / questioned by the users openly and what parts are strictly the user's problem. but i do think the no warranty part is so overlooked these days ^^

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@kasdeya@cryptid.cafe 2026-04-27 02:44

@yuki@nyanya.gay to be honest I always thought that those sections were meant to protect against getting sued, rather than a way for the contributors to say “we don’t feel any responsibility for ensuring that our software works, or for fixing any issues with it, or for preventing it from causing any type of harm”. I think it’s just to protect the people who work on it like, can you imagine how terrible the Linux world would be if every aspect of it was treated as “we’re just going to push some code out there, and it’s the user’s fault if it melts their GPU”? I could maybe use some small, simple open-source apps that had a cultural attitude like that, as long as I wasn’t too dependent on them and there were alternatives that I could switch to if they got borked. (I’d also carefully virus-scan them lol) but I definitely wouldn’t want to run device drivers or an operating system made with that type of philosophy

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@yuki@nyanya.gay 2026-04-27 01:00

@kasdeya@cryptid.cafe it's much different when there's a less permissive license or straight up copyright/trademark involved, because then you HAVE to disclose how much of the software includes a warranty of WORKING out of the box. i think this is the case for many enterprise solutions of community projects (ie enterprise gitlab)

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