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Re:Actix project postmortem by kjs3 on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:46AM (#22076289)
Yeah, that's really the core of the problem, isn't it. People trying to impose an implicit understanding (which is nothing more that 'this is what I want the world to be like') when there's an explicit statement of 'this is how it actually is'.

The attitude baffles me. So many times I've had someone come in all butthurt and say 'I know it was in the contract, but I didn't think they'd actually enforce it'.

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Re:Actix project postmortem by zokier on Friday January 17, 2020 @06:52PM (#22080961)
> So many times I've had someone come in all butthurt and say 'I know it was in the contract, but I didn't think they'd actually enforce it'.

or the converse situation "I know I used liberal license but I'm still going to raise hell if people actually do what the license allows"

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Re:Actix project postmortem by kjs3 on Friday January 17, 2020 @07:15PM (#22081107)
No, that's not the converse. The license says exactly what it means, which is:

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,

Period. Calling it a 'liberal license' doesn't mean what you think it means.

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