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by ekianjo 2341 days ago
> I'm not sure which license was used by actix-web, but let me quote the last section of the MIT license as a reply

This is a really bad answer because the most reliable and robust free software projects out there all use this same boilerplate license warnings. This is just for legal protection.
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watwut 2341 days ago
No, that is actual scope of warranty and assurance those developers intend to promiss. Everything else is beyond and above.

I pretty much guarantee you that if the "clearly mark your project as toy project" thing would become something people actually are expected to use, it would be everywhere too.

As if now it is nowhere, not on very clear toy projects and not on serious looking projects thay are sparsely maintained. The ones with license are all clear on limited warranty.

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kube-system 2341 days ago
I think it is a fine answer, albeit incomplete. Many of those robust projects you mention are supported by contracts which do guarantee some work is being done. If you’d like some guarantees of quality, you are free to negotiate a contract with the maintainers for those guarantees.

Think of MIT’s warranty disclaimer as the “free tier” of service.

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