Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem [LWN.net]

Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

Posted Dec 12, 2023 15:59 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem by ballombe
Parent article: Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

All three disclaims 'MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.' which is the key: they are not marketed.

Yes. But if you are creating a GitHub page and write README there then now you are marketing something.

The bar is pretty low. You may get away with a simple README file, especially if you would put disclaimers there in place of usual “I have created something wonderful” spiel. What you may see on Apache.org or rust-lang.org is definitely marketing. And that's by design.