"Trust" goes beyond just reading licenses. Actually I would say that if I have to hire a lawyer to read license files to tell me what is meant and how it's enfo

"Trust" goes beyond just reading licenses. Actually I would say that if I have to hire a lawyer to read license files to tell me what is meant and how it's enforceable, I have quite the opposite of trust. "Trust" means that members of a community generally presume good faith in each other (because of a record of past successful interactions, not because they believe in presuming good faith as a virtue) and believes they're working towards the same goal. This requires having some form of shared values. You don't need trust to implement a system of contract law, which is all you need if you're reading licenses. But then you merely have a civil society, not a community. "Trust" means not only that you can expect other people to write open-source code but you can expect them to share the belief that writing open-source code is valuable.