[edfletcher_t137]

Thank you so much OP for writing this, and I hope it resonates not just with maintainers (or potential maintainers) but to users of FOSS too. You needed to write this - specifically, the "Baseline" section, which I agree with vigorously - because too many users of FOSS consider themselves entitled to continued maintenance, support, feature development, community fostering, etc. etc.

We (maintainers) owe you NONE OF THAT. We gave you our code. That. Is. Enough.

[yaris]

I believe your last line should be written in any OSS README file first, maybe twice (in the same vein as another poster suggested because "no one reads the license").