This is standard, and doesn't mean they aren't standing behind their work. If you ever see "legal advice" (in the loosest sense of the term) being given in onl

This is standard, and doesn't mean they aren't standing behind their work. If you ever see "legal advice" (in the loosest sense of the term) being given in online forums, like /r/LegalAdvice, the phrase you see the most is IANAL[0] – "I am not a lawyer." By actual lawyers, you usually see the variant "I am not your lawyer." Being my lawyer means I have cilent-lawyer confidentiality and other privileges. But you commenting online, or writing a github repo, doesn't meet that standard. This might seem very obvious to you, but unfortunately I've seen people get this wrong a bunch. It's a component of ensuring we protect everyone's rights. Essentially if you used that project and got in legal hot water, and then said, "but hey, I got legal advice from this github repo", well if they were lawyers they could lose their license. This is drilled into them as ethical behaviour. Getting it wrong comes with risk, and there's no benefit. A lawyer is only going to give you advice once you're actually their client, have signed an engagement letter or similar, and most importantly they understand the facts of the case. Legal advice is case-specific, and giving general advice leads to wrong advice, which gets people in trouble. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IANAL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_of_law#Unauthorized_practice_of_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_of_law#Unauthorized_p...