Here in the US folks tend to have some amount of burden on their creations, tools they use, etc. Just because you put out a sign that says “Not My Problem” doesn’t make it so.
Great example is these big gravel trucks hauling rocks to job sites, they’ll rain stones on the roadway and the cars and sometimes pedestrians because the workers are sometimes too careless to pull down the tarp to secure their load. They’ll put up a sign saying “DRIVER NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE” but the problem is they 100% are both legally and morally responsible.
We also have some rules around nuisance, enticement, etc. For instance, if I have a pool and a kid jumps my meager fence and drowns I might we’ll still be responsible, at least legally, because I put up an enticing thing but failed to consider how idiots might misuse it.
To me, the pool one starts to get at or near “South of Sanity” but that’s from where this mentality applies.
Often you’ll get some Node project some cool tech person shits out, pimps out to social media , then abandons when the real work comes out. Folks will pick it up early on as traction builds, then be stuck with abandonware when the author gets a new job or chases a different shiny ball. I would argue you at least owe a caveat in the README about your level of commitment to the project, a bit beyond a mere “not my problem” license line.
Here in the US folks tend to have some amount of burden on their creations, tools they use, etc. Just because you put out a sign that says “Not My Problem” doesn’t make it so.
Great example is these big gravel trucks hauling rocks to job sites, they’ll rain stones on the roadway and the cars and sometimes pedestrians because the workers are sometimes too careless to pull down the tarp to secure their load. They’ll put up a sign saying “DRIVER NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE” but the problem is they 100% are both legally and morally responsible.
We also have some rules around nuisance, enticement, etc. For instance, if I have a pool and a kid jumps my meager fence and drowns I might we’ll still be responsible, at least legally, because I put up an enticing thing but failed to consider how idiots might misuse it.
To me, the pool one starts to get at or near “South of Sanity” but that’s from where this mentality applies.
Often you’ll get some Node project some cool tech person shits out, pimps out to social media , then abandons when the real work comes out. Folks will pick it up early on as traction builds, then be stuck with abandonware when the author gets a new job or chases a different shiny ball. I would argue you at least owe a caveat in the README about your level of commitment to the project, a bit beyond a mere “not my problem” license line.