Comment by lifetimerubyist
4 hours ago
No the expectation of FOSS is that code is provided AS-IS with NO WARRANTY because that’s what it says in the license.
4 hours ago
No the expectation of FOSS is that code is provided AS-IS with NO WARRANTY because that’s what it says in the license.
People's expectations are not constrained by the license. They are free to exercise a sense of entitlement beyond the terms of the contract and empirically they often do. The license does not prohibit them from engaging with the authors or maintainers for any reason whatsoever, including requesting free labor.
You could perhaps add a clause in the license that restricts this behavior but then it would no longer be FOSS.
Perhaps they simply meant the legal expectations are constrained by the license.