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No expectation of support?
by zeroonetwothree 4y ago
No expectation of support?
- simplotek 4y agoThere is zero expectation of support in FLOSS projects. You get what you paid form
- ddulaney 4y agoI really think it's more complicated than that. For sure, there's no legal expectation of support. If you don't support your open-source project, I can't sue you. But there is a social expectation of support. If the issues page is a ghost town, proposed patches just sit, and there hasn't been a release in years, we call the project "unmaintained" and discourage its use. At that point, if there's interest, somebody can fork it and support the fork, but forking is a serious act: it strongly signals that you don't like the direction that the current maintainer is heading. If that project is truly unmaintained, that's fine, but all-too-many open-source projects end up with rival forks when the original maintainer comes back. So yeah. There's zero legal expectation of support. But the social expectations are real, and providing a snippet (at least in my mind) has less of an expectation than a library.