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There is zero expectation of support in FLOSS projects. You get what you paid form
by simplotek 4y ago
There 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.