[dismalaf]

Open source is just a license. Anyone who makes it more than that is looking for some sort of religion or something IMO.

Here's your obligations: if you're the author, none. If you're a user, whatever the license spells out. Nothing more, nothing less.

Open source works because individual incentives can be mutually beneficial.

Ascribing too much personal meaning to OSS is what causes burnout, just touch grass and if you need money, start a real business or get a job.

[avighnay]

Yes this is exactly what it is. I think there is so much haze built around it for last 15 years because corporates started using OSS as a means of viral marketing. Individual developers on the other hand saw it as a status enhancer. In this, the original principle of FSF, 'Free as in Freedom, not Free as in Free Beer' was forgotten completely. This in principle is what you have stated above.

The freedom to choose, not the entitlement to demand was the original promise of OSS

[eviks]

If you want to reduce the sum total of human interaction re code to a license, you're part of the religion where the priests are lawyers. But it's not a common religion, so plenty of people behave differently