Because according to the UCC (United States commercial code or something like that) you can't just say "no warranties". You have to explicitly offer the softwar

Because according to the UCC (United States commercial code or something like that) you can't just say "no warranties". You have to explicitly offer the software "as is" and disclaim one/some implicit warranties BY NAME. It should only apply to merchantability, but you throw everything else in there for good measure. In the EU we have none of those things, and cross-border issues is governed by the UN version of the UCC which is much more lax with regard to warranties. Since I live in Sweden I could probably just say "Copyright 2019 Bjoli. You can use this code as you please as long as you don't hold me liable for it's use or remove this notice", but IANAL so don't really listen to me. Edit: but that is of course only if software is a good, which hasn't really been established.